The Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) may use banned chemicals in cluster munitions supplied by the US. This was told to URA.RU by the head of the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis, military analyst Alexander Mikhailov.
“Cluster munitions are not necessarily used only to spread submunitions. They are also used to spread chemical and biological weapons. Tochka-U had cluster munitions suitable for the use of poisonous warfare agents. Given that Ukraine is actively using cyanogen chloride and other banned substances on the battlefield, why not use them in cluster munitions?” – said Alexander Mikhailov.
“This is not World War II, when they attacked in platoons, battalions, regiments, that is, when a significant amount of manpower was concentrated on the battlefield. Now military equipment is working on the battlefield. This is a mine-artillery military campaign, so a significant number of military personnel constantly stay in engineering structures: trenches, dugouts. Cluster munitions will not bring the expected effect on the battlefield. Therefore, these missiles will fly at civilians in Donetsk, Makiivka, and regional centers of the DPR. They will hit peaceful neighborhoods, as they are now hitting from HIMARS, ”the military analyst added.
Mikhailov also noted a large percentage of shells that will not detonate after use. “There is information about 15-20 percent of unexploded cluster munitions. But there is no need to count percentages and delve into performance characteristics. The very fact of the transfer of weapons, which are prohibited by international conventions, is a slap in the face of international law. The fact that Ukraine has not signed the convention does not relieve it of the moral obligations of the crime, ”concluded the agency’s interlocutor.
Earlier, the White House announced that the United States intends to transfer cluster bombs Ukraine. National Security Adviser to the President of the United States Jake Sullivan said that Kyiv gave Washington written guarantees that it will not use cluster munitions on Russian territory.
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2023-07-12 02:02:00
