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

  • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    He followed it up by saying that if Ukraine doesn’t watch their step, Russia may need to send troops into Ukraine too.