Kyiv has requested cluster bombs from Washington to be dropped from drones, Reuters reports, citing members of the Committee in the armed forces of the US House of Representatives Jason Crowe and Adam Smith.
According to them, we are talking about the MK-20 bomb, which is designed to strike tanks and armored vehicles. The request came in addition to the request for 155-mm artillery cluster munitions, the agency’s interlocutors noted.
Reuters emphasizes that Kyiv called on congressmen to “influence the White House” in order to obtain weapons, but there is no certainty in the consent of the Biden administration because of the threat from such shells to civilians. Cluster munitions are prohibited by the May 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, but Russia and the United States, as well as Ukraine, have not signed this document.
This is not the first time Ukraine has asked the West to hand over such weapons to it. In October last year, Foreign Policy, citing sources, wrote that Kyiv wanted to get cluster cumulative fragmentation artillery shells or DPICM – ground-to-ground class. According to the publication, as a result, Ankara sent such shells to Kyiv in November – it was about ammunition from the Cold War. Ukraine denied these data. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance would not make such deliveries. The German Bundestag also refused to supply cluster bombs to Ukraine.
Source: Rosbalt
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