Washington is not currently ready to supply Kyiv with cluster munitions, the White House said.
The White House is currently not considering Ukraine’s request for cluster munitions, but is not against their transfer. The reason lies in the fears in Washington. Politico reported this, citing informed sources.
According to media reports, the transfer of such ammunition is one of many requests that the Biden administration has not yet actively considered.
“It’s not a no, but it’s not where there’s progress right now,” said John Kirby, a spokesman for the US National Security Council.
According to him, the White House has “concerns” about this, because cluster munitions are banned in more than 100 countries around the world.
“According to our own policy, we have concerns about the use of such ammunition,” he said.
However, the American official refused to confirm that such a request was received from Kyiv.
Cluster munitions are a type of air-to-ground or ground-to-ground munition.
The peculiarity of such ammunition is that when it breaks, submunitions are released or ejected – smaller bullets.
Cluster munitions are banned by the May 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. As of early 2022, a total of 123 countries have ratified the Convention.
We add that, according to a number of experts, cluster munitions will solve two main problems for Ukraine:
- the need for more ammunition for artillery and rocket systems;
- reducing Russia’s numerical superiority in artillery.
Athletistic previously wrote that US media said that Ukraine allegedly asked the US to “provide cluster munitions.”
It should be noted that according to the human rights organization Human Rights Watch, Russian troops have used cluster munitions in Ukraine hundreds of times in at least 10 of Ukraine’s 24 regions.
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Source: korrespondent
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