The Russian occupiers launched a massive air strike with cluster bombs on the positions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
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On Sunday, November 20, in the Staromayorsky area of the Donetsk region, the enemy launched a massive attack on Ukrainian positions with RBK-500 cluster bombs, which were modified into glide bombs. This was reported by analysts from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), who also referred to Russian bloggers.
According to the so-called military correspondents, this strike was “the first major Russian strike on Ukraine using these weapons in a planned modification of the bomb.”
And the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Ukrainian military repelled ground offensive attacks of the Russian invaders in the Staromayorsky district and the enemy on November 19 was unable to advance in the border region of the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions.
Let us recall that in August the Washington Post reported that the main risk when using cluster shells is that some of them will definitely not explode. If we talk about US weapons, the number of such cassettes is about 2%, and in the case of Russia we are talking about 30-40%. Unexploded ordnance becomes a threat to civilians even when fighting stops.
Source: Racurs
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