Even NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg last year described cluster bombs as “inhumane” and a “violation of international law”. And the US leadership also criticized the use of this internationally banned ammunition by the Russian military. But now the tide has turned and US President Joe Biden has approved the delivery of cluster bombs to Kiev. The harsh answer from Moscow was not long in coming. Former President Dmitry Medvedev accused Biden of wanting to provoke a nuclear war.
“Perhaps the dying grandfather, plagued by sick fantasies (meaning US President Joe Biden, editor’s note), simply decided to step down gracefully, provoke a nuclear Armageddon and send half of humanity to their deaths said the deputy head of Russia’s National Security Council. on his Telegram channel on Saturday. The supply of cluster munitions and the promise of NATO membership to Ukraine show that Biden has exhausted all other resources. Medvedev threatened that this would lead to a third world war. The Russian ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, previously warned that World War III is approaching because of the increasing involvement of the United States in the conflict.
Russia sees ‘act of desperation’
The Russian Foreign Ministry strongly criticized the supply of cluster munitions to Ukraine, calling it an “act of desperation”. This is another “flagrant exposure of the United States’ aggressive anti-Russian course aimed at maximum prolongation of the conflict in Ukraine and a war to the last Ukrainian,” State Department spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday. . More civilians would die from the cluster munitions.
Zakharova called the promise of the Kiev leadership that the ammunition would only be used against military targets worthless. “Washington becomes complicit in the mining of areas by supplying cluster munitions and thus fully shares responsibility for explosions, including those of Russian and Ukrainian children,” the spokeswoman said.
Britain rejects cluster munitions
Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General António Guterres also criticized the US announcement. Guterres does not want “cluster munitions to continue to be used on the battlefield,” a spokesman said. Britain also maintains its opposition to cluster munitions. “The UK has signed a convention banning the production or use of cluster munitions – and we advise against their use,” Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told Sky News on Saturday during a campaign appearance in Selby, northern England.
Source: Krone
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