ISTANBUL: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday (Jul 7) entered crunch talks with Türkiye's leader after securing a US pledge for cluster munitions that could inflict massive damage on Russian f
that could inflict massive damage on Russian forces on the battlefield.
Zelenskyy has been travelling across Europe and working the phones trying to secure bigger and better weapons for his outmatched army, which has launched a long-awaited counteroffensive that is progressing less swiftly than Ukraine's allies had hoped. US President Joe Biden's decision to approve the delivery of cluster munitions provides Ukraine with weapons capable of dispersing multiple small explosives over an area covering several football fields.
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