Putin says Russia will use cluster bombs in Ukraine if it has to
Putin says Russia will use cluster bombs in Ukraine if it has to
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-says-russia-has-sufficient-stockpile-cluster-bombs-will-use-them-if-2023-07-16/
Moscow will use its stockpile if Ukraine deploys the widely-banned munitions first, Putin said.
President Vladimir Putin said Russia had a "sufficient stockpile" of cluster bombs and reserved the right to use them if such munitions, the use of which he said he regarded as a crime, were deployed against Russian forces in Ukraine.
Ukraine said on Thursday it had received cluster bombs from the United States