Putin says Russia has ‘sufficient’ cluster munitions for tit-for-tat
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country had enough cluster munitions to answer if Ukraine was to use the weapons, in an interview published on Sunday.Concerns were raised when Ukraine began receiving cluster weapons from the United States because of the long-term risk that non-exploding bomblets represent to civilians.
Putin remarked that Russia has an adequate supply of different types of cluster munitions in stock to a journalist for state television.
Up to several hundred small explosive charges, some of which may stay undetonated in the ground, can be scattered by the contentious weapons. Russian soldiers have allegedly already been firing cluster munitions on the battlefield, according to Human Rights Watch and the Ukrainian military.
Numerous nations, mostly in Europe, that have ratified the Oslo Convention from 2008, to which neither Russia, the United States, nor Ukraine is parties, have declared them illegal.
The US's decision to give Ukraine cluster weapons has drawn harsh criticism from humanitarian organizations.
Although the choice was "very difficult," US Vice President Joe Biden emphasized that Ukraine needed more ammunition to replenish its low reserves.
Putin stated, "We reserve the right to take tit-for-tat steps if they are employed against us.
Even though there was "certainly a shortage of munitions at some point," he continued, Russia had not yet deployed the weapons.
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