
US to send controversial cluster bombs to Ukraine
Amanpour
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The Impact of Cluster Bombs on Civilians
Russia has been using it in the Eastern Donbas since 2014. There have been over a thousand Ukrainians killed by just Ukrainians civilians killed by picking these up. The human rights watch also says there's been about 400 children who have seen these small little cans pick them up and they've exploded. So it leaves what's called a dirty battlefield afterwards. If you even go with the 3-5% gun rates that I've experienced personally, that's about 4-5 small grenades per round times 100,000. You're talking about close to a half a million of these small grenades that will be left on the battlefield.
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