Biden to Send Thousands of Cluster Bombs to Ukraine Despite Them Being Against US Law And Banned in 120 Countries – a Year After Jen Psaki Said Using Them ‘Would Potentially be a War Crime’

• Biden to Send Thousands of Cluster Bombs to Ukraine Despite Them Being Against US Law And Banned in 120 Countries – a Year After Jen Psaki Said Using Them ‘Would Potentially be a War Crime’
  by HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/
  * The White House has since December been weighing up providing cluster munitions to Ukraine to help them in their war against the Russian invasion
  * The weapons are known to cause grievous injury to civilians, especially children: they are banned in more than 100 countries, but not the U.S. and Ukraine
  * Five days into the war Biden’s then-press secretary Jen Psaki responded to reports of Russia using cluster munitions and accused them of war crimes
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  The US has decided to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to help its military push back Russian forces entrenched along the front lines – despite the ex-White House press secretary saying last year that Russia’s use of the bombs was a ‘war crime’. The Biden administration has been weighing up a decision on sending the munitions since December, and is expected to announce on Friday it will send thousands of them as part of a new military aid package worth $800million.
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  Cluster munitions explode and disperse a series of smaller bombs over a wide area, often killing civilians. More than 120 nations have signed a 15-year-old treaty banning their use, but Ukraine and Russia have both deployed them – and Ukraine’s supplies of all types of ammunition are dwindling. 
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