2023-07-16 09:08:46
Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that his army has a “good reserve” of cluster munitions, threatening to use it on the front in Ukraine if Kyiv uses this type of weaponry supplied by the United States. United.
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Washington has announced the forthcoming delivery to the Ukrainian army of these weapons, which are used very controversially, because the charges they disperse can cause many collateral civilian victims.
“In Russia, there is a good reserve of cluster munitions, of different types,” Putin said in an interview with the public television channel “Rossia-1”, broadcast on Sunday.
“So far, we [ne] We didn’t use them, we didn’t need them, even though we had a well-known ammunition shortage at one point,” Putin said.
“But if they are used against us, we reserve the right to retaliate,” added the Russian president.
On Tuesday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had already affirmed that “if the United States supplies cluster munitions to Ukraine, the Russian armed forces would be forced to use similar means of destruction”.
Ukrainian soldiers have already accused the Russian army since the beginning of the conflict of using this controversial ammunition.
According to Mr. Putin, the United States has announced that it will deliver these weapons because it has a “shortage of ammunition” to offer Kyiv.
“The Ukrainian army uses per combat day up to 5000 or 6000 155mm shells. However, the United States produces 15,000 a month, they do not have enough, and Europe does not have enough either. They have nothing better to offer than to use cluster munitions,” Mr Putin said.
These weapons are prohibited in a number of countries, notably European, signatories of the Oslo Convention of 2008, of which neither the United States, nor Ukraine, nor Russia are parties.
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