[gr8eman]

Banned by who? When? Russia never signed the Geneva convention IIRC

[themidnightskulker]

neither did the daesh

[thackney]

Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (with Protocols I, II and III)
Geneva, 10 October 1980
https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XXVI-2&chapter=26&lang=en

In the list of signatures is the Russian Federation.