2023-07-08 14:09:22
Russia considers that the delivery of cluster bombs a Ukraine by EU “They are a gesture of despair” and “they speak of the impotence” of kyiv’s Western partners over the course of the war, which is 500 days old.
Russia considers that the supply by EU of cluster bombs a Ukraine it is another step towards a new world war, while he recalled that in the past Washington said that the use of these explosive devices “is a war crime.”
“Washington continues to raise the stakes in the conflict (…). The deep involvement of the United States in the conflict of Ukraineeven without cluster munitions, has never been in doubt,” wrote the Russian ambassador to Washington, Anatoli Antonov, on the Telegram account of the embassy of Russia en EE.UU.
“However, the current level of US provocations is truly off the scale and brings humanity closer to a new world war,” the ambassador said.
He stressed that the US “is so obsessed with the idea of defeating Russia who does not realize the gravity of his actions”.
In his opinion, with the military aid provided by the White House to Ukraine “They only cause more casualties and prolong the agony of the kyiv regime.”
“We firmly believe that Western weapons will in no way stand in the way of the goals of the special military operation aimed at eradicating threats to the security of the Russian Federation, including Nazism fueled in Ukraine“added the ambassador.
In his opinion, the cluster bombs “are a gesture of desperation” and the US supply of them to Ukraine They “talk regarding the impotence” of kyiv’s Western partners over the course of the war, which is 500 days old today.
“However, they refuse to admit their own failures and the collapse of the Armed Forces’ attempts to Ukraine to launch an offensive once morest the Russian regions. That’s why they commit new follies “, he emphasized.
In turn, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, María Zajárova, recalled on her own Telegram channel the words of the former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who would have said on February 28, 2022 that the use of cluster bombs “It’s a war crime.”
What are cluster bombs?
Cluster bombs consist of a container that opens in the air and disperses a large quantity of explosive submunitions or “bomblets” over a wide area, which can be a radius of between 200 and 400 meters.
The problem is that some of these “bomblets” do not explode when they make contact with the ground and remain buried, so that they can detonate years following when a civilian passes through the area.
More than 100 countries, including NATO members such as France and Germany, oppose the use of cluster bombs and they have ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which entered into force in 2010 and to which Ukraine, Russia and the United States are not a party. (With information from EFE)
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