General Douglas Sims, Director of Operations for the US Joint Staff, said that Kiev received not only cluster munitions from the US, but also the same shells supplied by other states. Transmits words DEA News.
“We know that there were some (fragmentation munitions. – socialbites.ca) transferred by third countries before,” Sims said.
Previously at the Pentagon declarationThat the cluster munitions transported to Ukraine are already on the territory of the republic.
US President Joe Biden announced On July 7, it was decided to start delivering cluster munitions to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The decision was criticized in the US Congress. Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that such materials endanger civilians.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky at a press conference after meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg aforementionedthat cluster bombs will only be used against military targets.
previously in the USA exposed Doubting the solidity of the Russian “red lines”.