Russia Ukraine War: Ukraine has once again alleged that Russia is using cluster bombs banned by the Geneva convention. Ukraine has officially said that Russian troops have dropped cluster bombs on Ukrainian cities. Three pictures have also been released by the official Telegram account of the Parliament of Ukraine.
The accompanying statement said, “A cluster bomb attack releases dozens or hundreds of submunitions, i.e. small explosives, whose detonation affects an area as large as the size of several football fields.”
Cluster bombs hit their targets with great precision and often cripple or kill civilians, the statement said. Cautioning the general public, it said, “Such bombs may take some time before they explode. So don’t touch yourself with anything like the one shown in the pictures.”
Earlier on February 28, human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and Ukraine’s ambassador to the US, Oksana Markova, accused Russia of using cluster bombs and vacuum bombs in the ongoing war.
“They used a vacuum bomb today,” Markova told the media after meeting with members of Congress. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said if Russia did indeed use these weapons, “it would be absolutely a war crime.”
What are Cluster Munitions?
According to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Weapons, a cluster munition means “conventional munitions designed to disperse or release explosive submunitions weighing less than 20 kilograms and includes explosive submunitions.”
Simply put, cluster munitions are weapons that are designed to injure or kill unaccounted for a large area and destroy vehicles and infrastructure such as runways, railways or power transmission lines. They can be dropped from an aircraft or launched from a launcher, which scatters several bombs into the air.
Many of these bombs do not detonate, but lie on the ground, most are few or completely hidden and are difficult to detect and remove, posing a threat to civilian populations long after fighting has stopped. We do.
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