Ukraine won’t use cluster munitions in the territory of Russia – Oleksii Reznikov 

Ukraine will use cluster munitions only in the fields where there is a concentration of the Russian military. These munitions will not be used on the officially recognized territory of Russia, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksii Reznikov, wrote on Twitter, Report informs.

According to him, Ukraine will keep a strict record of the use of these weapons and the local zones where they will be used: “We will report to our partners about the use of these munitions, and about their efficiency to ensure the appropriate standard of transparent reporting and control.”

“We welcome the decision of the US to provide Ukraine with the new liberation weapons that will significantly help us to de-occupy our territories while saving the lives of the Ukrainian soldiers. Under Article 51 of the UN Charter Ukraine has a universal internationally recognized right to self-defense and thus we have been officially requesting these types of munitions for a long time. I would like to stress that in exercising our inalienable right to self-defense we will continue to strictly comply with all the international humanitarian conventions signed and ratified by Ukraine. It is important to note that the Russian Federation has been indiscriminately using cluster munitions from day 1 of the unprovoked large-scale aggression. Our position is simple - we need to liberate our temporarily occupied territories and save the lives of our people. For this we need to inflict losses on the enemy - war criminals, rapists, and looters - who are occupying our territories. The more losses we inflict on them the more lives of Ukrainian people we will be able to save. It is in our interest to save the lives of our soldiers. This is why we will continue to do this using all lethal weapons available to us,” the minister tweeted.