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The open-source intelligence group Bellingcat says that its researchers found cluster munitions in that strike as well as multiple cluster attacks in Kharkiv.Īmnesty International said Russian forces have a “shameful record of using cluster munitions in populated areas.” Rights groups have said three people were killed after Russian cluster bombs hit near a pre-school in the northeastern city of Okhtyrka. Human Rights Watch said four people were killed in the Vuhledar strike. Hiznay retweeted photos of what he said was unexploded 9N235 cluster submunitions scattered around in Kharkiv.

and another Monday on Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, with a population of 1.4 million. 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. Russian forces have “most definitely” used cluster bombs in Ukraine, Human Rights Watch’s Hiznay said. As a result of decades of war, the Afghan countryside remains one of the heaviest mined countries in the world. In the 1980s the Russians made heavy use of cluster bombs during its 10-year invasion of Afghanistan. But the Trump Administration rolled back that policy, allowing commanders to approve use of such munitions.Ĭluster munitions were also used in the Balkan wars in the 1990s. Defense Department had been due by 2019 to stop use of any cluster munitions with a rate of unexploded ordnance greater than 1%.

In the first three years, it is estimated the U.S.-led coalition dropped more than 1,500 cluster bombs in Afghanistan. initially considered cluster bombs an integral part of its arsenal during the invasion of Afghanistan that began in 2001, according to HRW. The last large-scale American use of cluster bombs was during the 2003 Iraq invasion, according to the Pentagon. Children have been killed or maimed long after the munitions originally fell, making it difficult to know the true toll. In 2017, Yemen was the second deadliest country for cluster munitions after Syria, according to the U.N. The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has been criticized for its use of cluster bombs in the war with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels that has ravaged the southern Arabian country.

Un convention on human rights in armed conflict 2011