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1. “What danger do cluster bombs pose?”
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-03-01/what-danger-do-cluster-bombs-pose
‘WHAT’S HAPPENING IN UKRAINE?

Russian forces have “most definitely” used cluster bombs in Ukraine, Hiznay said.

He pointed to at least two instances: a missile attack that hit outside a hospital in the town of Vuhledar on the first day of the invasion last week. and another Monday on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, with a population of 1.4 million.

Hiznay retweeted photos of what he said was unexploded 9N235 cluster submunitions scattered around Kharkiv. Human Rights Watch said four people were killed in the Vuhledar strike.
Russian President Vladimir Putin enters a hall to chair a Security Council meeting in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022.

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Feb. 28, 2022

Human rights groups have said three people were killed after Russian cluster bombs hit near a preschool in the northeastern city of Okhtyrka. The open-source intelligence group Bellingcat says that its researchers found cluster munitions in that strike as well as multiple cluster attacks in Kharkiv.

Amnesty International said Russian forces have a “shameful record of using cluster munitions in populated areas.”

Justin Bronk, a research fellow at Royal United Services Institute, a London defense think tank, said images of munitions parts recovered from residential areas of Kharkiv are “concrete evidence” that Russia is using cluster bombs.

“Their use suggests the Russians are trying to break morale, inflict terror on the civilian population and the defenders in order to try and force a negotiation or just retreat,” he said.’

2. What is a cluster bomb, the controversial weapon the U.S. is sending to Ukraine?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cluster-bombs-munitions-ukraine-united-states-russia/

“A variety of cluster bombs have been used by Russia on the battlefield in Ukraine, both against Ukrainian troops and in urban areas, Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow at the defense and security think tank RUSI, told CBS News.”

3. Ukraine war: Evidence shows widespread use of cluster munitions in Kharkiv
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61778433

‘Russia has killed hundreds of civilians in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv using indiscriminate shelling and widely-banned cluster munitions, according to new RESEARCH BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL.

AMNESTY said it had found EVIDENCE OF RUSSIAN FORCES REPEATEDLY using 9N210/9N235 cluster bombs, as well as “scatterable” munitions - rockets that eject smaller mines that explode later at timed intervals.

The BBC visited five separate impact sites in residential neighbourhoods in Kharkiv and saw evidence of a distinctive, symmetrical spalling effect associated with cluster munitions. We showed images from the sites to three weapons experts, who all said the impacts were consistent with the controversial weapons.

“Those impacts are from cluster munitions, it’s a classic signature,” said Mark Hizney, a senior researcher in the arms division of HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, a campaign group. “And in one image you can see a remnant of a stabiliser fin from one of the submunitions,” he said.

CCTV FOOTAGE passed to the BBC by a resident at one of the sites showed SUCCESSIVE CLUSTERED DENONATIONS - “a very strong indicator of submunitions from a cluster weapon,” said Hamish de Bretton Gordon, a former British Army colonel and Cambridge University weapons expert.
An apparent submunition impact from a cluster bomb in a Kharkiv residential neighborhood