The Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoiguhas announced this Tuesday that the Russian Armed Forces could use cluster bombs in Ukraine if the shipment of this type of ammunition by the United States to the Ukrainian Army is certified.
Shoigu has remarked that the Russian Armed Forces have so far refrained from using this type of ammunition during the war in Ukraine, but has warned that if Ukraine finally has these capabilities, Moscow will be “forced to use similar weapons”.
“Russia is armed with the full range of cluster munitions, and they are much more effective than the American ones,” said Minister Shoigu, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
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The administration Joe Biden announced last week the shipment of this type of munitions, a decision harshly criticized from Russia and which has also met with rejection among the Western allies, as in the case of the United Kingdom.
From Russia, there have been reproaches to the decision of the United States, and they have even gone so far as to denounce that, if this type of war capabilities are finally delivered to Ukraine, Washington would be committing a war crime due to the impact that the cluster munitions has on the civilian population.