The United States announced on July 7 that it will send Ukraine cluster Munition prohibited by more than 100 countries as part of an 800 million dollar Security package a move Ukraine said would have an extraordinary psycho-emotional impact on Russian forces asked why he was providing the cluster Munitions now Biden told reporters that it was because the ukrainians were running out of
ammunition cluster Munitions could boost Ukraine's counter-offensive to reclaim territory seized since Russia invaded in February 2022 said Mark kanchan a former Marine Colonel and a senior advisor at the center for strategic and international studies in Washington Ukraine has asked for these weapons to fire against Russian positions with Duggan troops but kanchan said cluster
weapons would not be a game changer adding that no single weapon is going to produce a victory with cluster Munitions is because these Munitions drop large numbers of what are bomblets depending on how they land some of them don't go off and will hang around and that number is anywhere from two percent on up depending on the train and civilians can happen upon these these Duds
and they can cause civilian casualties what happens is that uh projectile will let these uh bomblets loose up in the air so the bomblets spread out over an area and go off like hand grenades all over a large area and that spreads out the weapons effects that's why they're so good uh as uh to attack areas and classic targets would be infantry because infantry typically spreads out artillery
positions and vehicle convoys one argument is that the ukrainians are on the defensive so there is not a moral equivalency here between the Russians what the Russians are doing and what the ukrainians are doing to defend themselves U.S inventories of other Munitions are already very low we've given about as much as we can so there really isn't an alternative out there now but the other
one is that these Munitions are just very effective much more effective than regular artillery against certain kinds of targets and now with the Ukrainian offensive not doing as well as people had hoped and they need a boost and this could provide that boost better Patrol been a number of members of Congress
and many humanitarian organizations that have raised concerns and opposed the transfer the Biden Administration has been quite emphatic about its reasons for doing this and it has a very strong consensus on Capitol Hill both Democrats and Republicans that we need to send these Munitions that we need to do more well most of our allies have signed the convention prohibiting these weapons on
the other hand most of them have also been urging the United States to support Ukraine and have supported increased Aid to Ukraine so I think that they are muting their reservations about transferring these weapons at this time and under these circumstances but what the ukrainians have to do is to be
careful where they use these weapons and to avoid using them in villages for example because you also get very high dud rates and build up areas they're much better in open areas so I wouldhope that that Insight you know thatthat targeting advice has gone along with the weapons uh there's no such thing as a game-changing weapon we keep hoping that there's some munition or some
weapon that we can provide the ukrainians that will produce Victory you'll hear that oh you know when back when there were discussions on Patriot when there were discussions about tanks and discussions about f-16s and no cluster Munitions on the other hand all of these weapons are useful they're all effective on the battlefield they will all help Ukraine in its struggle but no single weapon is going to produce a victory.
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