"Together with cassette ammunition, Ukraine will also receive a portion of criticism": military expert

According to the Convention on Casket Ammunition, such weapons are prohibited for the use, accumulation, production and transfer of it. The Prohibition Treaty was signed by 111 countries, including the United States, Ukraine and Russia. US Presidential Advisor Jake Sullivan explained that Washington is well aware that cassette shells are dangerous for civilian populations, so they could not consider supplying these weapons for so long.

But at the same time, he assured that Ukraine has taken written obligations that it would be wise to use cassette bombs to minimize the risks to the civilian population. The military expert, coordinator of the Information Resistance Group Alexander Kovalenko believes that, together with cassette ammunition, Ukraine will also receive a portion of criticism. Especially from those countries that have a very serious Russian lobby, both political and expert, and journalistic.

Germany has already spoken against the departure of cassette ammunition to Ukraine. Foreign Minister Annalen Berbb said they did not approve of the transfer of such weapons as a signator of the Convention. "It is because of the existing Convention that the United States has not made a decision to transfer casset ammunition to Ukraine. The Russian army constantly uses these shells - these are some of the main elements that allows to increase the efficiency "," Hurricane.

The army of the Russian Federation applies these shells, in particular, in residential areas, and given that a large number of cassette ammunition is not broken immediately, but remain in the ground in fact as mines And in the future. "For the entire period of full -scale invasion, the Ukrainian army was demonstrated high -precision attacks at the positions , not in residential areas. " The expert says.

Such conclusions were reached in the United States and decided to pass this kind of weapons, Kovalenko said. According to him, Ukraine now has a shortage of ammunition and ammunition, and the supply of cassette shells is an intermediate moment before supplying other artillery shells. "Of course, it was possible to pass the ATACMS missiles that Ukraine has long as long as there is a nuance. There is no serial production The invaders are no longer a good advertising for weapons.

Patriot, which knocks down ballistic missiles, Javelin, which destroys modern Russian tanks, "Bradley" that is undermined by a mini, falls under fire, but at the same time keeps the life of the whole crew is good advertising. And the beaten 20 out of 100 ATACMS missiles can be bad advertising. It seems to me that this is why the transfer of such missiles has not been implemented so far, "the expert said.

According to Kovalenko, cassette ammunition is able to influence the fighting on the front line, to increase the efficiency of the Ukrainian defense forces, but to say that it will become some turning point. We will remind, the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova responded to the transfer of cassette ammunition to Ukraine. According to her, the use of such weapons is a war crime.