US decides to send cluster munitions — banned across a large part of the world — to Ukraine that could inflict massive damage on Russians but also dramatically up stakes in war, now in its 500th day
President Joe Biden says decision to provide controversial munitions was "very difficult," but Ukrainian forces were "running out of ammunition."US says it will not provide cluster munitions with a "dud rate" of more than 2.35 percent. [File] / Photo: Reuters
"They either have the weapons to stop the Russians now — keep them from stopping the Ukrainian offensive through these areas — or they don't. And I think they needed them," he said. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sought to justify the decision, saying there was"a massive risk of civilian harm if Russian troops and tanks roll over Ukrainian positions and take more Ukrainian territory and subjugate more Ukrainian civilians."
Referring to the Ukraine push, he said that"it's been hard sledding, because the Russians had... six months to dig in. And so those defensive belts that the Russians have put in place in the east and in the south are hard – they'd be hard for any military to punch through." And Amnesty International said Biden's administration"must understand that any decision enabling the broader use of cluster bombs in this war will likely lead to one predictable outcome: the further death of civilians."
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