Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu made stark remarks in a speech from the Kremlin earlier today.
The president has previously boasted of having a ‘sufficient stockpile’, stressing a readiness to deploy them.
His defence minister Sergei Shoigu said in a speech earlier today that the Kremlin has refrained from doing so out of ‘humanitarian’ concerns. Both Ukraine and Russia have used the munitions during the war, but the Biden administration has been reluctant to send them over due to their‘Another humanitarian problem is related to the US decision to supply Kyiv with cluster munitions,’ Shoigu said during the Moscow Conference on International Security after addressing the termination of the Black Sea grain deal.
‘Today, Washington and its accomplices are committing this crime in Ukraine. Condemnation from humanitarian organizations, as expected, no.‘Until now, for humanitarian reasons, we have refrained from using them. But this decision may be reviewed.’ Russian forces have used cluster munitions in attacks that have caused hundreds of civilian deaths and incinerated houses, hospitals, and schools, Human Right Watch confirmed in a report from the end of May.The remains of artillery shells and missiles including cluster munitions in Toretsk Many submunitions fail to explode on initial impact, leaving duds that act like landmines, posing a threat to civilians for years and even decades.
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