Russian Federation
Practice Relating to Rule 79. Weapons Primarily Injuring by Non-Detectable Fragments
The Russian Federation’s Military Manual (1990) prohibits the use of weapons that may cause superfluous injury or suffering and refers to the 1980 Protocol I to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
The Russian Federation’s Regulations on the Application of IHL (2001) states: “The following shall be prohibited to use in the course of combat operations: … any weapons the primary effect of which is to injure by fragments which in the human body escape detection by X-rays.”