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US supplies cluster munitions to Ukraine

 The Ukrainian armed forces have received cluster bombs from the United States, a senior Pentagon official said on Thursday.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff's Lieutenant General Douglas Sims informed reporters that cluster bombs have actually been delivered to Ukraine." 

As reported by TASS, the general remained mum on whether they had been utilized.

This information was also confirmed to CNN earlier in the day by General Alexander Turnavsky, who is in charge of combined forces operations in Tavria. 

Despite the United Nations' opposition to the use of such weapons, the United States chose to supply cluster bombs to Ukraine, said US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on July 7. 

Furthermore, he claimed Kyiv had written to Washington to assure it would deploy the contentious weaponry in a way that reduced harm to civilians. 

Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador to the United States, said that the United States' reckless decision to give cluster bombs to Ukraine would not stop Russia from attaining its specific military operations objectives.




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