the Biden Administration has decided to
supply Ukraine with cluster bombs as
part of a new weapons package that's set
to be announced on Friday a cluster
bombs which were also used in Syria's
Civil War released large numbers of
smaller explosives that can kill and
name indiscriminately over a wide area
more than 120 countries have banned the
weapons
the group Human Rights Watch says both
Russia and Ukraine have used cluster
Munitions in this war
I asked our Washington bureau chief Enos
Poe what's behind this announcement
yeah indeed as you just said we're
expecting to hear an announcement
tomorrow that the United States plans to
send class simulations for 155
millimeter uh Howitzer Canyons with
other weapons as well so Brent this
announcement does not only come days
before the NATO Summit next week in
Vilnius Lithuania but also at the moment
when President zielinski is blaming
Russia that they might be targeting the
sapronisha nuclear power plant one of
the biggest in Europe and accordingly
that could lead to a catastrophe in in
white parts of Europe so this
announcement will be another commitment
from the US from President Biden to
support Ukraine to support their spring
or summer offensive even though as you
just mentioned human rights groups
worldwide condemn the usage of this
cluster Munitions yeah cluster bombs are
definitely controversial talk to me a
little a bit more about what the
reaction has been there in the U.S or in
Washington to this news
right so first of all and you also said
that in other news sources kind of uh
also say that that both countries
Ukraine and Russia are already using
those cluster bombs so that's not really
new to the battlefield however to kind
of get a little bit of context how these
work so classy mutations are kind of
conventional explosives that break apart
in flight and Scatter bomblets and they
are called submunitions and they have to
serve this reputation as an especially
ugly weapon of War because of the danger
they pose to civilians and not only that
as not all of this subunition explodes
when it hits the ground it is also kind
of compared to land mines as they can
explode years later if someone steps on
them and that often are children and
women so these are reasons why most of
the European countries Germany included
have banned the US of cluster bombs so
this decision will cause a lot of
controversy tomorrow and we definitely
will go to the Press concert conferences
and challenge the decisions and ask for
the reasons behind it
uw's useful with the ladies tonight from
Washington Enos as always thank you