Using them isn’t a war crime, targeting civilians deliberately is.
The question—”is there a red line for how much violence will be tolerated against civilians in this manner that’s illegal and potentially a war crime?”
MS. PSAKI: It is — it would be. I don’t have any confirmation of that. We have seen the reports. If that were true, it would potentially be a war crime.
“The cluster munition attack with the highest known civilian casualties occurred on April 8, 2022, when Russia launched a Tochka-U ballistic missile equipped with a cluster munition warhead at a crowded train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk as hundreds of people were trying to leave the area. A detailed Human Rights Watch investigation found that the attack killed at least 58 civilians and injured over 100 others.
Ukraine launched Tochka-U on train terminal last year.
It flies in a specific pattern with the booster falling behind the warhead.
Originally, they claimed it was an Iskander missile, but then some Italian reported took a picture of the boosters laying southwest from the terminal.
It is worth mentioning that the serials on the boosters matched the batch previously used in Donetsk bombardment.