Amid Ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive in the war, the U.S. plans to supply controversial cluster munitions.
Cluster ammunitions are controversial, and the decision by the White House to send them to Ukraine is turning heads.
Cluster munitions, also known as cluster bombs, are lethal weapons that simultaneously take out tanks, artillery positions, and even troops. Cluster munitions have a notoriously high dud rate, meaning thousands of those smaller bomblets land on the ground without exploding, posing a danger to civilians who come across them years later, accidentally setting them off.
"It's been hard sledding because the Russians had six months to dig in. And so those defensive belts that the Russians have put in place in the east and the south are hard; they'd be hard for any military to punch through," said Dr. Colin Kahl, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
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