Cluster Bombs. A Danger to Civillians

“Spain, based on the firm commitment it has to Ukraine, also has a firm commitment that certain weapons and bombs cannot be delivered under any circumstances,” Robles said.https://sputnikglobe.com/20230708/spain-joins-nato-allies-un-in-opposing-us-transfer-of-cluster-munitions-to-ukraine-1111755149.html

“These are already all over the country and will need to be cleaned up. That is not a good enough excuse for the United States to be sending more. Legislators, policymakers and the [President Joe] Biden administration will probably think twice when the pictures start coming back of children who have been harmed by American-made cluster munitions,” Sarah Yager was quoted as saying by the newspaper.https://sputnikglobe.com/20230708/at-least-38-rights-groups-opposing-uss-cluster-bombs-delivery-to-ukraine-1111738990.html

“We do not support the use of cluster munitions,” the Canadian government told the national broadcaster CTV on Saturday. Ottawa is “committed to putting an end to the effects cluster munitions have on civilians – particularly children,” the statement read.

Separately, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told journalists that London also does not support employing cluster bombs. “The UK is a signatory to a convention that prohibits production or use of cluster munitions and discourages their use,”https://www.rt.com/news/579413-allies-cluster-bombs-us-kiev/

Last year, then White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki described Russia’s alleged use of similar ordnance as “potentially a war crime.”https://www.rt.com/news/579408-spain-cluster-bombs-ukraine/

“We have a clear position,” the minister said as he arrived at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Climate Conference. “These are the munition systems that are banned at an international level,” he added, comparing cluster munitions to anti-personnel mines.“

Cluster bombs are still lying around for years [after a war has ended]. We have seen this in the Middle East. [They] can inflict immense damage to the civilian population years after a conflict,” Schallenberg said.https://www.rt.com/news/579357-austria-position-cluster-munitions-ukraine/

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “supports the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which, as you know, was adopted 15 years ago. And he wants countries to abide by the terms of that convention,” his spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York. “

And so as a result, of course, he does not want there to be continued use of cluster munitions on the battlefield,” Haq concluded.https://www.rt.com/news/579359-un-condemns-cluster-munitions/

By deciding to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine, the US is becoming ‘complicit in the death of people’, Russia’s Foreign Ministry underscored.https://sputnikglobe.com/20230708/supplying-cluster-munitions-to-ukraine-will-make-us-complicit-in-death-of-people–moscow-1111752981.html

“A victory for Ukraine is an essential victory for democracies across the globe, but that victory cannot come at the expense of our American values and thus democracy itself,” Houlahan, an Air Force veteran and the co-chair for a congressional caucus on unexploded ordnance, said.Rep.

Jim McGovern of Massachusetts also issued a statement questioning the wisdom of providing cluster weapons to Kiev, saying the bombs “disperse hundreds of bomblets, which can travel far beyond military targets and injure, maim and kill civilians – often long after a conflict is over.”https://www.rt.com/news/579370-democrats-cluster-munitions-ukraine/

As a result, cluster munitions continue to kill long after the battle where they were employed has ended. The victims tend to be civilians who stumble upon these munitions and inadvertently set them off

….an international treaty that prohibits all use, transfer, production, and stockpiling of cluster munitions, it has recognized the need to develop cluster munitions with a designed “dud” rate of less than 1% to minimize the post-conflict risk to civilian populations.

…the Biden administration touts the fact that the M864 has a “dud” rate of less than 2%,

…the claim that the M864 DPICM rounds being sent to Ukraine are comprised only of batches “certified” as possessing a “dud” rate of less than 2% is a calculated lie

….The tests cited—five of them, conducted between 1998 and 2020—were carried out at the KOFA firing range, located within the US Army’s Yuma Proving Ground, in Arizona,…when employed in real-life situations, the “dud” rate of the sub-munitions will be much higher—often up to 20%.https://sputnikglobe.com/20230708/scott-ritter-cluster-munitions-will-change-nothing-for-ukraine-1111754159.html

In general, cluster munitions refer to any kind of shell that opens in the air and releases a number of smaller explosives, called “bomblets” over a larger area. They can be made to be fired by artillery, naval guns, rocket launchers, or dropped from a plane.https://sputnikglobe.com/20230708/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cluster-bombs-the-us-will-send-to-ukraine-1111735880.html

I think Ukrainian supporters on social media are braindead.

Cluster Bombs. A Danger to Civillians.