2023-07-16 08:04:09
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed today, Sunday, that the Russian forces maintain sufficient stocks of cluster bombs.
The Russian President added that Russia reserves the right to respond in the event that cluster bombs are used once morest its forces.
Putin said: “So far, we have not done that, we have not used them (cluster munitions), and we have not had such a need, despite the shortage of ammunition at some point, but we also have ammunition, but we have not done that.” According to “Sputnik”. Russian News.
On sending the United States shipments of cluster munitions to Ukraine, the Russian President said: “They do so because of the lack of ammunition in general.”
Putin revealed, in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin, that “the United States itself previously described the use of cluster munitions as a crime,” adding, “I think this is how it should be.”
He added, “I would say that Russia has sufficient stocks of different types of cluster munitions, of various types.”
Cluster Bombs: An Armed Comparison Between Russia and Ukraine
Putin’s statements come days following similar statements issued by the Russian presidency and the Russian Defense Minister.
On the twelfth of July, the Kremlin announced that Russia would have to take measures and countermeasures if Kiev used the cluster munitions that Washington recently promised it.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “The possibility of using this type of ammunition by Kiev changes the situation, and of course we will have to take countermeasures.”
A day earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu warned that if the United States supplied Ukraine with cluster munitions, Russian forces would be forced to use similar weapons once morest Ukrainian forces.
Shoigu said, “If the United States supplies Ukraine with cluster munitions, the Russian armed forces will have to use similar weapons once morest the Ukrainian forces as a response,” noting that Russian cluster munitions are more effective than American ones, in addition to having a wider and more diverse range.
The Russian Defense Minister affirmed that his country is armed with cluster munitions “for all occasions,” stressing that Russia has refrained from using such munitions in the special operation, aware of the threat it poses to the civilian population.
Zaporizhia authorities accuse Kiev of using cluster munitions
Ukraine’s attack on Lugansk with cluster munitions
On Sunday, Russian media reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the southwestern part of the city of Luhansk, using long-range cluster munitions.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko in the pro-Russian Luhansk forces told TASS that, “At regarding 10:00 Moscow time in the southwest of the city of Luhansk, the residents heard the work of the air defense, and then there were rolling explosions very similar to the explosions of cluster munitions, that is, it was There is not one explosion, but there were a large number of them almost simultaneously.”
“I can assume that it is a long-range missile, but with a cluster part. But what kind of missile was used by the Ukrainian militants, I cannot say for sure yet,” he added.
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