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While Russia is committing war crimes, they have not used cluster bombs. AFAIK this claim is based on a report that they were deploying cluster bombs against a
by ravel-bar-foo 5y ago
While Russia is committing war crimes, they have not used cluster bombs. AFAIK this claim is based on a report that they were deploying cluster bombs against a civilian mall in Kharkiv. The video shows rapid explosions falling on the mall, but not as rapidly as one would expect to see if cluster bombs were used. Most likely it was Grad (MRLS) missiles. Still likely to be a war crime, but not cluster bombs.
- jacquesm 5y agoThere are many, many pictures of unexploded submunitions lying around and plenty of videos of their use.
- ravel-bar-foo 5y agoYour comment inspired me to search harder, and I found what I believe to be credible evidence that some of the MRLS missiles targeted at Kharkiv contained cluster munitions. I would retract my above comment.
- jacquesm 5y agoNP, there is so much information flowing right now that this sort of thing is very easy to miss.