RUSSIA is ready to unleash a fresh wave of terror by bombarding civilians with white phosphorus ahead of a second-wave onslaught to capture eastern Ukraine, it is feared.
The incendiary bombs, which burn through flesh at up to 2,700 degrees C, will be used in a desperate bid to conquer the besieged port city of Mariupol, British officials suspect.
Up to 150,000 civilians are trapped inside the city where Ukrainian fighters have held out against relentless Russian assaults.
White phosphorus bombs have already been used over Kyiv and against troops in the east of the country, Ukrainian sources said.
And the UK’s Ministry of Defence warned tyrant