The Biden administration announced it would provide cluster bombs to Ukraine to avert artillery shortages during its counteroffensive. NBC’s Courtney Kube reports with details on the munitions.
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Cluster ammo and lots of white phosphorus ammo please!!! ASAP!!!
Biden ramping up his murder machine to take more lives. He wants to scale up the war so people are afraid to change leaders and he keeps a leathery death grip on power.
Controversial?
To anyone feeling unsettled by this news, please read the comment by Ukraine's MoD:
We welcome the decision of the US to provide Ukraine with the new liberation weapons that will significantly help us to de-occupy our territories while saving the lives of the Ukrainian soldiers.
Under Article 51 of the UN Charter Ukraine has a universal internationally recognised right to self-defence and thus we have been officially requesting these types of munitions for a long time.
I would like to stress that in exercising our inalienable right to self-defence we will continue to strictly comply with all the international humanitarian conventions signed and ratified by Ukraine.
It is important to note that the russian federation has been indiscriminately using cluster munitions from day 1 of the unprovoked large-scale aggression. In February-March 2022 Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city with over a million population, was relentlessly bombarded by russians cluster munitions.
Our position is simple – we need to liberate our temporarily occupied territories and save the lives of our people. For this we need to inflict losses on the enemy – war criminals, rapists and looters – who are occupying our territories. The more losses we inflict on them the more lives of Ukrainian people we will be able to save.
It is in our interest to save the lives of our soldiers. This is why we will continue to do this using all lethal weapons available to us.
Regarding the cluster munitions, we have 5 key principles which we will abide by and which we have clearly communicated to all our partners, including the US. I have personally informed our US partners about these five principles in writing a long time ago.
1. Ukraine will use these munitions only for the de-occupation of our internationally recognised territories. These munitions will not be used on the officially recognized territory of russia.
2. We will not be using cluster munitions in urban areas (cities) to avoid the risks for the civilian populations – these are our people, they are Ukrainians we have a duty to protect.
Cluster munitions will be used only in the fields where there is a concentration of russian military. They will be used to break through the enemy defence lines with minimum risk for the lives of our soldiers. Saving the lives of our troops, even during extremely difficult offensive operations, remains our top priority.
3. Ukraine will keep a strict record of the use of these weapons and the local zones where they will be used.
4. Based on these records, after the de-occupation of our territories and our victory these territories will be prioritised for the purposes of de-mining. This will enable us to eradicate the risk from the unexploded elements of cluster munitions.
The Minister of Defence of Ukraine is by law acting as the Head of the national de-mining agency. In this capacity I will ensure the implementation of the relevant legal framework for the de-mining process after our victory.
5. We will report to our partners about the use of these munitions, and about their efficiency to ensure the appropriate standard of transparent reporting and control.
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This is as low as it gets. Like dirty bombs. That’s what the US has been reduced too. Don’t have anything else to send
Thank god for the US, the clusters will clear out the minefields
This type of munition is perfect to deal with how Russia has set up the trenches of their fighting positions.
Since Ukraine has no air power to speak of, these angles of attack have to come like this.
It will save the lives of Ukrainian soldiers who would have to flush out these trenches.
Bad for the Russian side of course, they really should think about surrendering.
In March 2022, Psaki stated that if the Russians use cluster munitions, then this should definitely be considered a war crime. It is prohibited by Convention on Clister Munitions, 2008.
Today, the United States announced that it would supply such shells to Ukraine. Well, don’t get surprised if Russia responds with the same
Cluster bombs are war crimes and those who use them will be prosecuted
This is justification to use chemical weapons and biological weapons
I'm surprised Pootin hasn't annexed Belarus, it would become Russian soil, hit Belarus would be hitting Russia. Lushenko is only Pootin's Puppet.
When Russia leaves the Ukraine the killing will stop,
WAR CRIME AMMO SHAME on AMERIKKKA
the next thing more evil than this is giving them nukes
The ethics of defensive use, on your own territory, in the face of a true existential threat, seems like it should easily outweigh any controversy. Future concerns can only be considered if survival now is successful. Russia using cluster bombs on foreign soil is the topic that should be condemned here, not Ukrainian use.
If Ukraine uses this, their own people will die.
To bad the American people voted for a clown who never even tried to negotiate a peace deal before the war even started,,,,Why aren't European countries sending their tax dollars,?
Send bows and arrows plus some slingshots instead.
You need to be charged with crimes against humanity!
I was at a retirement seminar and the speaker spoke on how he quit his job after he made well over $950,000 PROFIT within 3months he invested $120,000. I need guidance on what investments to make.🚀🚀🚀…..
I taught Ukraine need nuclear bomb
Vietnamese to this day still stumble across these
Nothing controversial about them. They need them. We can’t be afraid of Russia’s little threats. That’s what they want, if everyone to be afraid. They’re terrorist thugs.
Well if us continue getting in a war just to use Ukraine as an excuse. Don't cry and complain when russia stand and crush them
What an embarrassment our government has become.
What comes after cluster bombs?…….FOABS AND MOABS?
Is this the next game changer? Because non of the previous game changers have changed the game. Btw, we are giving them cluster munitions from the 80's which already had a high failure rate when they were new.
Russians are not using those ones. Nato and they're lies 😂