Russia claims the US has admitted to committing war crimes by defending the delivery of cluster bombs

MADRID, 10 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Russia has affirmed this Sunday that the United States has admitted to having committed war crimes during the Ukrainian conflict after having defended the need to deliver cluster bombs to kyiv.

The Russian ambassador in Washington, Anatoli Antonov, has indicated that the spokesman for the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, has admitted "de facto the commission of war crimes" by declaring "openly that civilians would be killed by weapons American cluster".

According to an Embassy statement, "in the White House official's perverted view, this does 'less harm' than Russia's actions." "If there is any logic to the (Biden) Administration's decision to transfer cluster munitions, it boils down to the fact that the situation 'will not get worse,'" he said.

Antonov has maintained that Washington "is ready to destroy all living beings far from its own borders with the hands of the Ukrainians" in order to achieve "the unrealizable dream of a strategic defeat" against Moscow.

"We are fighting against the Kiev criminals who embrace the Azov terrorists - considered a terrorist organization in Russia - while the United States helps the Ukrainian Nazis to commit inhumane acts," the Russian diplomat said.

Kirby defended this Sunday in an interview with ABC the US government's decision to send cluster bombs despite the risk they pose to civilians. In addition, he indicated that Ukraine will seek to limit the impact of bombs outside the battlefield.

"I think we can all agree that more civilians have been and will continue to be killed by Russian forces -- whether by cluster munitions, drones, missile strikes or just frontal strikes -- than are likely to be injured by the use of such munitions fired at Russian positions within Ukrainian territory.

The spokesman also explained that this supply has been given at this time to compensate for the speed with which the Ukrainian Armed Forces are using the rest of the artillery, due to the fact that they are running out of inventory and the artillery production does not meet these requirements. levels.

Therefore, he suggested that this type of ammunition is meant to be temporary, since it is intended to "help close the gap as we increase the production of normal artillery shells."

The National Security adviser, Jake Sullivan, has confirmed this reason in a press conference, justifying that "the president (Joe Biden) has made (these) decisions about specific capacities based on the circumstances of the conflict" at present.

"This conflict is dynamic. Things change on the ground. And things are changing in terms of the (military) capability we have to provide. As they change, so are our decisions about what we can contribute," Sullivan said. .

The United States approved on Friday the delivery of cluster bombs to Ukraine, an initiative widely criticized because this type of ammunition is prohibited by international treaties due to the damage it causes among the civilian population. So Biden defended the measure despite the fact that it was a "difficult decision."