Putin says Russia has stockpiled cluster bombs and will use them in Ukraine if it has to
MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin has said Russia has a “sufficient stockpile” of cluster bombs and reserves the right to use them if such munitions, the use of which he said he regards as a crime, are deployed against Russian forces in Ukraine.its biggest military backer, which says the munitions are needed to compensate for shell shortages faced by Kyiv’s forces at a time when they are mounting a counteroffensive.
Kyiv has said it will use cluster bombs to dislodge concentrations of enemy soldiers when trying to take back its own territory, but will not use them on Russian territory.“I want to note that in the Russian Federation, there is a sufficient stockpile of different kinds of cluster bombs. We have not used them yet. But, of course, if they are used against us, we reserve the right to take reciprocal action,” he said.
Human Rights Watch says both Moscow and Kyiv have used cluster munitions. Russia, Ukraine and the US have not signed up to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which bans the production, stockpiling, use and transfer of the weapons.
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