2023-07-01 19:46:33
For this reason, Milley’s statements could represent another step in the escalation of tensions. Before the National Press Club, the North American general acknowledged that “there is an ongoing decision-making process” regarding the sending of cluster bombs.
He also said that the Zelensky regime has requested this weaponry. “for a long time” and assured that other countries have already supplied “some of that.”
In earlier days, outlets like The Washington Post y CNN cited high-ranking US sources to report that the United States is indeed studying the supply to Ukraine of cluster bombs, an extremely lethal weapon containing multiple explosive submunitions or bomblets.
These bombs are often dropped from aircraft or fired from land or sea, opening in the air to release tens or hundreds of submunitions, which can saturate an area the size of several football fields or more than 300 meters.
One of the biggest risks of cluster munitions is that they can cause deaths indiscriminately and could also put civilians at risk even after their execution.
“We have recorded the large-scale use by the Kiev regime of phosphorous-filled munitions — this is against the third protocol of the 1980 UN Convention — and the cluster bombs used by the Ukrainian Army,” said the Russian Ambassador Vasili Nebenzia at a UN Security Council meeting.
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