The U.S. might arm Ukraine with cluster bombs. Here's why that's so controversial
Will the U.S. supply Ukraine with cluster bombs?that the decision-making process to send the bombs to Ukraine was “ongoing,” noting that Russian troops were using them on the battlefield and that Ukrainian forces have already received them from other Western allies.
Some U.S. lawmakers have called on the Biden Administration to not send the weapons. Last week, for example, 14 senatorsa letter to the U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan saying that while they recognize the munitions could provide Ukraine an advantage on the battlefield, they were “convinced that the humanitarian costs and damage to coalition unity of providing U.S. cluster munitions would outweigh the tactical benefits.
Remains of a cluster munition rocket nailed in a field near a dirt track in the frontline of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on April 19, 2022.Experts say cluster bombs have an immense capacity to cause destruction. “Cluster munitions are not just any conventional military weapon, they are widely acknowledged to pose a severe risk for civilians in conflict and even friendly forces,” Kimball says.
In 2008, more than 100 nations signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, an international treaty that came into force in 2010 and prohibits the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of the deadly weapons. Only 16 countries—including the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia—have so far refused to sign the convention, according to Cluster Munition Monitor 2022.More Must-Reads From TIME
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