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President Russian, Vladimir Putinclaimed that his army had a “good reserve” of cluster bombsthreatening to use them at the front if kyiv used this type of weapon supplied by USA.
Washington announced the forthcoming delivery to the Ukrainian army of these highly controversial weapons, since the charges they disperse can cause many collateral civilian casualties.
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“In Russia, there is a good stock of cluster bombs, of different types”, Putin stressed, in an interview on the public television channel “Rossia-1″, broadcast on Sunday.
“So far we have not used them, although at some point we had a shortage of ammunition”, he continued.
“But if they are used against us, we reserve the right to retaliate.”, added the Russian president.
On Tuesday, the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei ShoiguI affirm that “Yeah USA supplies cluster bombs to Ukrainethe Russian armed forces will be forced to use similar means of destruction”.
Since the beginning of the conflict, Ukrainian soldiers have accused the Russian army of using these controversial munitions.
According to Putin, the United States announced the delivery of these weapons because they have “ammunition shortage” to offer in kyiv.
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“The Ukrainian army uses up to 5,000-6,000 155mm shells per day of combat. The United States produces 15,000 a month, they don’t have enough, and Europe He doesn’t have enough either. They have nothing better to offer than the use of cluster bombs”Putin assured.
These weapons are banned in many countriesin particular Europeans, signatories of the oslo convention of 2008, which neither the United States nor Ukraine nor Russia signed.
Source: Elcomercio
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