Ukrainians Consider Cluster Bombs a Boon to their War Effort and Existence

Since the United States approved a couple of weeks ago sending Ukraine cluster bombs to help fight and defeat russian terrorists that have invaded Ukraine 17 months ago, the world has been appalled and panic stricken.

The reason is that this weapon can inflict collateral damage on civilians. What is collateral damage? According to the dictionary, it is injury inflicted on something other than an intended target; specifically: civilian casualties of a military operation.

If you’ve been following my blog then you’d know that in Ukraine there is no collateral damage. All of Ukraine is a legitimate target in the minds of putin, his commanders and their cutthroats. Soldiers, ammunition storages, tanks, civilians, children, apartment buildings, pizzerias, etc. are military targets for russian terrorists.

Consequently, Ukrainian civilians aren’t aghast by Washington’s decision supply their armed forces with cluster bombs. I asked a colleague, a writer and publisher in Lviv, which endured a direct hit by russian missiles on an apartment complex that killed at least a dozen civilians, his thoughts about the frenzy over cluster bombs. He replied:

“And why didn’t the world go crazy on February 24, 2022? Why didn’t it start going crazy in February 2014 (when Crimea was invaded and seized)?

“Russia has been widely using cluster bombs since last year. And how does the world react to this?

“By the way, in American cluster bombs, up to 2% do not go off after the explosion, which can later pose a danger. And up to 45% of russian cluster bombs don’t detonate! Is there a difference?

“The Armed Forces of Ukraine fire only on military targets. Not civilians. Unlike muscovites.

“Ukraine did not sign the convention on cluster munitions, which was adopted in May 2008 in Dublin, because it considers cluster munitions to be legal weapons. Ukraine will use cluster munitions only for the de-occupation of its territories within the borders of 1991, which are recognized in the international legal field. That is, the weapon can be used in the temporarily occupied territory, but will not be used for strikes on the territory of the russian federation. Ukraine commits not to use cluster munitions in cities, and will strike only in areas where russian troops are concentrated, in order to break through the enemy’s defense lines.

“Ukraine must win. Ukrainians have no other way out.”

Indeed, if Ukrainians do not fight and defeat russians, there will be no Ukraine and Ukrainians.