![]() ![]() Human Rights Watch has called on Russia and Ukraine to stop using these controversial weapons, which break apart in the air and release large numbers of smaller bomblets across a wide area.Ĭluster bombs pose great risk to civilians long after their use: while the bomblets are designed to detonate on hitting the ground, seriously injuring or killing anyone in the area, up to 40% of bomblets have failed to explode in some recent conflicts, essentially becoming undetonated landmines. The US is expected to announce a new weapons aid package to Kyiv on Friday, and Reuters is reporting that cluster bombs will be among the weapons included. A Ukrainian soldier shows a captured Russian flak vest and casing of a cluster bomb rocket, east of the strategic port city of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on 10 March 2022.
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