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[-] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago
  1. Russia is not using them. Only Ukraine has been.

  2. So you're okay with them using chemical weapons, petal mines (which they have), bioweapons... just anything goes, right? The people of Crimea and Donbas are "defenders", can they do anything too?

[-] kimpilled@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago
  1. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/08/25/growing-civilian-toll-russian-cluster-munition-attacks

  2. Chemical weapons: no, due to their effects easily leaving the AOR. Petal mines: yes. Crimea and the Donbas are occupied Ukrainian territory.

[-] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is well documented, by Human Rights Watch and others, that **the Ukrainian military **has used cluster munitions. There is nothing to support a claim that Russia has done so. The Pentagon has rejected the earlier claimed evidence of Russian cluster munition attacks:

Commenting on videos depicting alleged Russian cluster munition use, DOD officials stated during a March 1, 2022 press conference that “we’ve seen the same video that you have but we have not assessed that it is definitive with respect to the use of cluster munitions. So we are not in a position to confirm the use of cluster munitions at this time.” In a similar manner, a DOD official stated during March 3, 2022, press conference that DOD was still unable to confirm Russia’s use of cluster munitions.

  1. So you've an issue with the effects of a weapon leaving the AOR but no issue with a weapon that still kills people over 70 years later.

Get some consistency man, you're all over the place.

[-] steltek@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Your Pentagon cite is from when the conflict was less than a month old. That is worthless.

[-] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, I've yet to see any credible evidence though.

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