Lukashenko: Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin back in Russia after sanctuary offer in Belarus
said he had a telephone conversation with the Wagner Group leader on Wednesday in which they discussed the mercenary army’s future.and will fulfill our duty to the end,’” the Belarusian president said, according to BelTA, the country’s state-owned news agency.
Asked about reports that cluster munition warheads — banned by more than 120 countries for their lethal effect and potential for causing civilian casualties — could be supplied to, a Pentagon spokesman Thursday would only confirm that the proposal is “under consideration” by the White House. But The Associated Press, citing “people familiar with the decision,” reported that the controversial munitions would be included.
Cluster munitions, including artillery projectiles and rockets, are designed to break apart in midflight and scatter smaller munitions over a large area.had appealed for them and U.S. lawmakers have been pressing the White House to provide them for several months. They said the decision would alleviate pressure on NATO’s shrinking munition supply.
“The United States has nearly three million of these rounds in its inventory — much of it located on U.S. and allied bases,” top Senate and House Republicans said in a March 21 letter to the president. “No individual munition or system will prove to be the key to restoring
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