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Human rights activists criticize the U.S. decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine

Joe Biden faces backlash from organizations and from within his own party for greenlighting transfer of the weapons

With Ukraine burning through stockpiles of conventional artillery, President Biden concluded that he had little choice but to provide the weapons.

The Pentagon’s statements indicate that the cluster munitions that will be sent to Ukraine contain older grenades known to have a failure rate of 14 percent or more.

Which drop multiple explosives to help with their counter offensive against russian forces. russia has been usingthe weapons since the start of the war. human rights groups say cluster bombs kill indiscriminately and unexploded devices can pose a danger to civilians for many years. 0ur correspondent, gordon corera, reports from kyiv. ukraine plasma counteroffensive has been under way for a month with heavy fighting in places like bartlett. progress has been slower than hoped. ukraine is short of...

Cluster munition. obviously there are concerns about what happens to some of those bomblets that dont go off. the ukrainians, we heard the defense minister thanking the u.s. in a tweet for these weapons. he said that ukraine has been pursuing the weapons for a very long line. he said ukraine would follow three basic principles, that they would not be used in urban areas, that they would only be used to liberate territory currently occupied by the russians and they would keep detailed records of ...

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And you heard president biden say this, that this was a difficult decision for him. they frame this as basically something that ukraine needs at this time to protect its own civilians, to protect its own citizens in the face of this russian invasion. but one of the reasons why i was prompted to ask those questions and i think the president as well said it was a difficult decision is we have seen numerous human rights groups voiced criticism, numerous allies of the united states as well, western ...

Multiple US allies, human rights and anti-war groups, the UN and Moscow have condemned Washington’s decision to send howitzer-launched DPICM cluster bombs to... 08.07.2023, Sputnik International

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