US to give Ukraine cluster munitions in US$800mil package FMTNews FMTWorld
Cluster munitions typically release large numbers of smaller bomblets that can kill indiscriminately over a wide area.
“We recognise that cluster munitions create a risk of civilian harm from unexploded ordnance,” Sullivan told reporters. “This is why we’ve deferred the decision for as long as we could.” Cluster munitions typically release large numbers of smaller bomblets that can kill indiscriminately over a wide area. Those that fail to explode pose a danger for decades after a conflict ends. Ukraine has asked for these weapons to fire against Russian positions with dug-in troops.
New Penguin drones, munitions for high mobility artillery rocket systems and ground vehicles such as Bradley fighting vehicles and Stryker armoured personnel carriers were also included in the security aid – the 42nd such US package for Ukraine totalling more than US$40 billion since the invasion. US ally Germany also opposes sending cluster munitions to Ukraine, foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said. Germany is one of 111 states party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, a pact that does not include the US.
“Undoubtedly, the transfer of additional volumes of shells to Ukraine is a very significant contribution to the acceleration of de-occupation procedures,” presidential political adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Friday.
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