The controversial weapons have been banned in more than 100 countries.

“Cluster munitions are among the most harmful weapons to civilians, as they disperse bomblets indiscriminately across a wide area that often fail to explode on initial impact, leaving duds that litter communities and endanger civilians, especially children, decades after a conflict ends,” the U.S. Cluster Munition Coalition, an organization that supports a comprehensive ban on U.S. cluster bombs, wrote in a statement on Friday.

  • realitista@lemm.ee
    189·
    1 year ago

    Considering that Ukraine is considering using them on their own territory which is already filled with more landmines than you’ll be able to get rid of in a lifetime, I think that’s their decision to make. They will be the ones dealing with the consequences of this, it’s not as if they invaded someone else’s country and used cluster muntitions on civilians of that country like, say, for example…Russia…