U.S. to provide Ukraine with cluster bombs, which are banned by more than 120 countries
The United States plans to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to help it battle Russian invaders, U.S. officials said on Thursday, a move opposed by human rights groups but which would provide a powerful new element to Ukraine’s counteroffensive
Human Rights Watch called on Russia and Ukraine to stop using cluster munitions and urged the U.S. not to supply them. The group said that both Russian and Ukrainian forces have used the weapons, which have killed Ukrainian civilians. Ukraine has urged members of Congress to press Biden’s administration to approve sending cluster munitions known as Dual-Purpose Conventional Improved Munitions .
The U.S. Army is currently spending more than $6-million a year to decommission 155 millimetre cluster artillery shells and other older munitions, according to budget documents. Sending DCIPMs would ease a drain on standard 155 millimetre shells that Washington has been shipping to Kyiv in massive quantities.
The security assistance package would be the 42nd approved by the United States for Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022, for a total of more than $40-billion.
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