According to accounts, Russian troops have been booby-trapping washing machines and toys in order to kill Ukrainians when they come home.

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees are returning home, determined not to see their country overturned by Putin’s army.

Residents face death as a result of the terror of unexploded bombs left behind by the Kremlin’s fleeing troops.

Antony Blinken, United States Secretary of State, told the Congress on Wednesday that there are “very credible reports” that Russians have been “booby trapping things like peoples’ washing machines and toys so that when people are able to return home and go about their lives, they’re killed or injured as a result of these booby traps.”

This is not the first time traps have been set up. Earlier this month, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that officials had discovered booby traps in Kyiv and Mariupol.

According to the New York Times, a driver named Oleg Naumenko opened the boot of an abandoned automobile, and it detonated, killing him instantly. The car had been booby-trapped, which is a breach of international law.

Mr. Naumenko’s wife stated that she “died with him” at the time. Unexploded devices have even been discovered buried under hospital stretchers and corpses.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky declared that the country is now  “one of the most contaminated by mines in the world.” He stated that officials were working hard to clear as many people as possible and called the tactic a war crime.

Anti-personnel mines, which are deliberately meant to kill people, were banned by an international convention ratified by practically every country in the world in 1997; however, Russia and the United States did not sign on.

According to Human Rights Watch, Russia has discovered over 54,000 explosive devices since the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine.

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