Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on Sunday that Washington’s provide of cluster munitions to Ukraine must be handled as against the law.
“The US administration itself gave an assessment to these munitions through the mouths of its employees some time ago, when the use of cluster munitions was called a crime by the US administration itself. I think this is how it should be treated,” Putin stated in an interview to the TV channel Rossiya-1.
Putin additional stated that his nation retains the correct to “mirror actions” within the case the place cluster munitions are used in opposition to Russia, including that Moscow has a “sufficient stock of various types of cluster munitions.”
“Until now, we have not done this, we have not used it, and we have not had such a need, despite the well-known shortage in a certain period of time, and we also have ammunition, but we have not done this,” Putin stated.
He additionally stated that he believes the US is supplying Ukraine with cluster munitions attributable to a normal scarcity of ammunition.
“The Ukrainian army spends up to 5,000-6,000 155-caliber shells per day of hostilities, while the US produces 15,000 per month. They don’t have enough, and Europe already doesn’t have enough (shells). But they did not find anything better than to propose the use of cluster munitions,” he added.
Cluster munitions launch bomblets that scatter within the goal space and will explode years later inflicting civilian casualties.
The 2008 UN Convention on Cluster Munitions prohibits the use, manufacturing, stockpiling and switch of cluster munitions.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
