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Since July 2022, Ukrainian partisan groups have been captured in cities occupied by Russia, in possession of firearms, ammunition, IEDs, and different initiation systems. On July 15, 2022, a group was apprehended in the city of Kherson, in possession of...

On November 19, 2022, an IED initiated inside a rickshaw traveling in Kankanady, on the outskirts of Mangaluru, in Karnataka State, at around 4:30 PM. After the explosion, the remains of a pressure cooker, metal nuts, batteries, wires and a...

On November 14, 2022, a VBIED, reportedly driven by a suicide bomber, initiated in an alley in Hamadeen District, in the Tariq al-Saad neighborhood of the Syrian city of Daraa. As a result of the explosion, damage was caused to...

On November 1, 2022, IID and IED attacks were recorded in over 20 locations in the provinces of Guayas, Esmeraldas and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, in Ecuador. Five police officers were also shot dead in violent episodes, prompted by...

Mortar bombs are the main ammunition used for large armed UAVs in the war in Ukraine, as well as in other conflict zones around the world. When using standard mortar bombs, there are several options for their initiation, including the...

On August 3, 2022, the Myaung Women Warriors – an armed group affiliated with the People’s Defense Force that operates in Myaung Township, in the Sagaing Region of northwestern Myanmar – released footage of their operatives preparing IEDs. The IEDs...

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, improvised multiple rocket launchers mounted on pickups and large trucks have appeared on the front lines, in the vicinity of Kharkiv, Kherson, Kryvyi Rih, Mykolaiv and Donetsk. The Ukrainians’ use of...

On October 8, 2022, at around 6 AM, a powerful explosion occurred on the Crimean road-and-rail Bridge, on the section leading from the Taman Peninsula, in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, to Kerch, in Russia-occupied Crimea. The explosion ignited seven fuel tanks...

On October 18, 2022, Myanmar security forces successfully neutralized a VBIED that had been parked in a commercial area in the center of Myawaddy town, in Kayin State, in eastern Myanmar. A large explosive payload had been placed in the...

Amid the continuation and intensification of the fighting in Ukraine, particularly between March 8 and October 4, 2022, the use of different standard shaped mines of Russian production to target infrastructure, by both the Russian and Ukrainian sides, was documented....

On September 28, 2022, at around 10:20 PM, an IED initiated on an empty bus at the Baigra Petrol pump gas station in the Domel Chowk area of ​​Udhampur, in Jammu and Kashmir. Two people were slightly injured as a...

On September 25, 2022, an explosion occurred in a moving vehicle traveling on Lomonosov Street, in the city of Melitopol, in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in Ukraine. As a result of the explosion, the driver, a Ukrainian citizen, was killed, and the...

On September 24, 2022, Azerbaijani border security forces found a cluster of mines in Zangilan District, near the border with Armenia. The weapons were inscribed with Armenian markings. The cluster included mainly Claymore-type mines and two large bounding mines similar...

Early on the morning of September 29, 2022, an explosion occurred in the city of Henichesk, located between the villages of Plavskoe and Sokolohornoe, in Kherson Oblast, in eastern Ukraine. An IED attack had targeted electricity towers of the Dzhankoy-Melitopol...

In September and October 2022, increased documentation of improvised loitering munitions based on rotary wing FPV racing drones appeared online, some with better visual information of the improvised payloads used. One such UAV was a Russian quadcopter with a fragmentation...