Moscow will use its stockpile if Ukraine deploys the widely-banned munitions first, Putin said.

President Vladimir Putin said Russia had a “sufficient stockpile” of cluster bombs and reserved the right to use them if such munitions, the use of which he said he regarded as a crime, were deployed against Russian forces in Ukraine.

Ukraine said on Thursday it had received cluster bombs from the United States

  • chowder@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    none utilizing a pressure fuse like the butterfly mines that were used by Ukraine.

    Both sides claim the other is using these, and both sides likely are.