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Ukraine receives cluster munitions - military spokesperson
Reuters via MSN ^ | July 13, 2023

Posted on 07/13/2023 7:52:48 AM PDT by McGruff

Ukraine has received cluster munitions, a military spokesperson said on Thursday, less than a week after the United States announced it would transfer such munitions to Ukrainian forces.

Valeryi Shershen, a spokesman for the Tavria military command in southern Ukraine, confirmed a CNN report citing the commander of the Tavria forces as saying Ukraine had just received cluster munitions but had not used them yet.

Cluster munitions are "in the hands of our defence forces," Shershen told Ukrainian television but giving few details.

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That was quick.
1 posted on 07/13/2023 7:52:48 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

This is it…two weeks to victory…


2 posted on 07/13/2023 7:55:58 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: McGruff

Mischief piled upon mischief. Actually, cluster bombs, actually a sort of air-seeded land mine, will render some areas as hazardous zones, and nobody will realize it until numerous serious injuries or deaths result.

The gift that keeps on giving.


3 posted on 07/13/2023 7:56:15 AM PDT by alloysteel (Take back the rainbow. Its use by LGBTQ is cultural misappropriation.)
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To: McGruff

Turning bad russians into good russians by loads.


4 posted on 07/13/2023 7:58:28 AM PDT by JadeEmperor
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To: McGruff
Hard to believe the posture of the administration is "we ran out of conventional artillery so we're sending them cluster bombs." Looking forward to the August press release from Sleepy Joe: "we gave them all the cluster munitions so now we have to give them the H-Bomb."

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5 posted on 07/13/2023 8:01:05 AM PDT by CodeJockey
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You realize that these cluster munitions will be used by Ukrainians on Ukrainian territory.

Decades from now, there will still be one legged children in Ukraine.


6 posted on 07/13/2023 8:03:26 AM PDT by MMusson
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To: McGruff

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/10/turkey-cold-war-cluster-bombs-ukraine/


7 posted on 07/13/2023 8:03:47 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: McGruff

They’ve been getting cluster bombs from Turkey since Dec 2022.


8 posted on 07/13/2023 8:04:42 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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After all the threads on this, I bet that there will still be the same repetition of facts required as people post not knowing that Russia has been using CBs from the first days of their invasion, that Ukraine has used them some, that the use of them is not a war crime but that they can be used in war crimes against civilians, which Russia has done repeatedly and which are being cataloged and investigated with charges pending.

We will have to repost that Trump overruled restrictions America put in place in 2008/9, the failure rates of previous US CBs versus newer ones versus the up to 40% failure rate of the Russian versions, and other information already posted many dozens of times.


9 posted on 07/13/2023 8:06:15 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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Russia can retaliate in kind. The Ukes are running out of men and options.


10 posted on 07/13/2023 8:08:28 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Biden will mess up the Ukraine worse than Afghanistan.)
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“”””That was quick.””””

I think the American Army practices moving ammunition from one place to the other place.


11 posted on 07/13/2023 8:09:44 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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That high of a failure rate on weapons that the Russians were supposedly out of over a year ago?


12 posted on 07/13/2023 8:10:14 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Biden will mess up the Ukraine worse than Afghanistan.)
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To: McGruff

Like most of these wunderwaffen announcements…they already had them while Joe was supposedly “ deciding”

The Ukes must be seriously short on 155mm shells


13 posted on 07/13/2023 8:13:14 AM PDT by silverleaf (It's not propaganda just because you disagree with it. )
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To: wildcard_redneck

What is to retaliate?

See post 9.


14 posted on 07/13/2023 8:14:37 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Post your sources that Russia had run out of Cluster bombs more than a year ago.


15 posted on 07/13/2023 8:16:16 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: MMusson

Looks like they’re using them just to keep Russia from advancing. Really stupid because they can’t advance either.


16 posted on 07/13/2023 8:18:53 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: McGruff

No one has asked if Ukraine have the systems to deliver these weapons.


17 posted on 07/13/2023 8:22:00 AM PDT by rey
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To: Sacajaweau

They’ve also been getting cluster bombs from Russia for some time now.


18 posted on 07/13/2023 8:24:23 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: MMusson

You have bought into more propaganda. US cluster munitions dud rate is ~2%, so its not like these will create huge mine fields. BTW, russian cluster bomb dud rates are closer to 40%, so who is creating the bigger problem here?


19 posted on 07/13/2023 8:27:24 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: McGruff

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/07/europe/cluster-munitions-us-ukraine-aid-explainer-intl-hnk-ml/index.html


20 posted on 07/13/2023 8:29:00 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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