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Volodymyr Zelensky visited Serpents’ Island in the Black Sea on Saturday July 8, which marks 500 days since the start of the war in Ukraine. At the same time, he received cluster munitions from Joe Biden and the United States, which is causing trouble within NATO.
These are weapons of terrifying destructive power: cluster bombs and shells. Capable of ravaging a large portion of land, the Russians are accused of using them on Ukrainian ground. The debate has long plagued the White House, but Joe Biden finally made up his mind: “Ukraine is running out of ammunition, and it is still heavily attacked”. These weapons are collected in a container, a bomb or a shell, which opens and releases dozens of cluster submunitions, which will ravage an area of several hundred meters.
The United States has not signed the international convention that prohibits its use
An international convention, signed by 108 countries, prohibits the use of these devices.rms. But neither the United States, nor Russia, nor Ukraine, nor China have signed it. Several European allies are worried. “These are munitions prohibited by international law. The bomcluster munitions can stay buried for years”worries Alexander Schallenberg.
Germany or the United Kingdom have also distanced themselves from this decision, without denouncing it. THE experts estimate that a third of Russian submunitions did not explode, putting the Ukrainians at risk in the future.