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On July 7, Washington announced its decision to arm the Ukrainian military with cluster munitions. The United States national security advisor to President Joe Biden Jake Sullivan explained that Washington recognized that such bombs pose risks to civilians, so the United States had postponed its decision. The news comes after Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report that said Ukraine has killed its own citizens using the munitions.
The supply of cluster munitions is allegedly a temporary measure taken before increasing the production of conventional artillery ammunition, Washington claimed. He refused to disclose the volume of deliveries.
US President Joe Biden claimed that the decision to transfer cluster munitions to Ukraine was made because it was running out of conventional shells.
Sullivan traditionally claimed that the United Stated has received guarantees from Kiev that the latter will use cluster munitions “with caution”.
In his turn, Kiev claimed that cluster munitions will help its military “de-occupy” Ukrainian territories, while preserving the lives of Ukrainian soldiers. Ukrainian Defense Minister listed five rules of the use of cluster munitions by the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
- Ukraine will use cluster munitions only for “de-occupation” and will not target “the officially recognized territory of Russia.”
- Cluster munitions will not be used in urban areas. Kiev intends to use them only in the areas of concentration of Russian military equipment.
- The Ukrainian authorities will keep a “strict record” of the areas in which cluster munitions are used.
- The areas where such shells were used will later become a priority for mine clearance. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine promises to prepare an appropriate legal framework for this.
- Kiev will inform its partners about the use of cluster munitions and their effectiveness, “in order to ensure an appropriate standard of transparent reporting and control.”
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on Reznikov’s publication, doubted that Kiev would follow these rules, as it was the case of previously supplied weapons.
“Who is he telling? Accounting and reporting are not about Ukraine under the current Kiev regime,” she wrote in her telegram channel.
Revealing Washington’s hypocrisy, Maria Zakharova also recalled statement of the White House made last year, calling the use of cluster munitions a “war crime.”
Cluster bombs scatter small submunitions over large areas, making them especially hazardous to civilians who can find unexploded munitions years after they were dropped. Because of their indiscriminate nature, cluster munitions have been banned by more than 100 nations. The US, Ukraine, and Russia are not parties to the treaty, known as the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
The UN opposed the use of cluster munitions in Ukraine. Their transfer to Kiev was not supported by Germany and Austria.
“The use of cluster munitions in populated areas violates the laws of war due to the indiscriminate nature of the weapon and may amount to war crimes,” HRW said.
The HRW report said that Ukrainian cluster munition rocket attacks in the eastern city of Izium in 2022 killed at least eight civilians and wounded 15 more. Ukraine’s use of cluster bombs on people living in the Donbass goes back to 2014. That year, HRW issued a report that said Kyiv was using the controversial munitions against populated areas of Donetsk.
On April 4, 2023, footage from the battlefields revealed that Kiev forces had begun using Israeli cluster mortar rounds against the Russian military.
In January 2023, Swedish-French smart artillery cluster rounds were also spotted in Ukraine.
The military experts of the JCCC of the DPR have repeatedly confirmed the shelling of civilians with cluster warheads. LINK
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cluster munitions are evil … literally evil. they should be banned by every country on earth.
nukes, chemical, biological weapons? weapons and munitions are what they are, humans will never ban them, they will praise and embrace these weapons.
you’re absolutely right. if you’re wondering about negative votes… the nafo-keyboard murderers are running out of text from langley so the fake voting-shtick comes out of the closet. same will happen in 2024 with biden election – 100 million mail “upvotes” to keep the crime family in office.
but it is perfectly fine that they are used in the middle east.
i hope gaddafis son win election houthis yemen win war malema win election in south africa so america is more scared😂😂😂
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if everything is running fine according to wsi, why is usa sending this?
so it gets even better. bang for buck best war since gulf war 2.
they spend billions of dollars but they can’t spend a penny for me. why do i feel so pathetic? 😔😔😔
you need to get under putin’s long table and blow him
putin’s alleged ally received zelensky and stated that ukraine has the right to belong to nato, didn’t the sf know? they are so independent in information lol
in that case russia must use the same munition and sure they have much more then then the ukonzis. russia should shot with this munition in the hole ucraina . to punish the nazis an kill all .
russia needs to send in a vdv commando team, capture all these ammos from the depot, then drop them in kiev to send a message to zelenskyy.
good idea. commandos are awesome.
i thought ukraine were already using cluster bombs. i thought the issue is that the us is now offering ukrain e their cluster bombs. us, ukraine and russia are all not on the list of countries that have banned cluster bombs, and so in theory they can all use them. i don’t see the problem with cluster bombs. if they don’t like killing people, including children, they should not be at war. mustard gas might help clear the trenches, not sure if thats been tried yet. maybe some bubonic plague?
just a thought, is the t-virus a real thing? that might be a game changer if it is.
the cf in washington d.c.shows it’s concern about humanity ,equality ,race and gender by murdering anyone and everyone including innocent children with cluster bombs or anything else to achieve their nwo.
well the ukrat counter offensive so far has been a totally nato mismanaged clusterfuck, so seems the right weapon!
rusia debe actuar con fuerza y determinación ante semejante atropello, por lo tanto ahora rusia debería amenazar con la utilización de bombas nucleares tácticas en caso de que las fuerzas ucranianas utilicen las bombas de racimo!.es más de hecho moscú tendría que denunciar este tipo de armamentos en los organismos internacionales onu y amenazar con la utilización de armas nucleares tácticas en caso de que ucrania utilice las bombas de racimo.
otra posibilidad para que el conflicto deje de escalar es que rusia se tome en serio la posibilidad de eliminar al presidente de ucrania selenski ya que rusia cuenta con armas de alta precisión, drones de ataque, además de utilizar agentes encubiertos para lograr matarlo y demostrar a occidente que rusia no está jugando cuando se trata de proteger al pueblo ruso.
nato war criminals…….
another wonder weapon. what’s next? chlorine gas canisters? lol
the biden junta. worth every penny in the book of warmongering, theft and extortion. 10% for the potato in the white house.
another wunder waffen that will bite the dust
us war criminals i hope you reap what you sow.