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UK discourages use of cluster bombs, says Rishi Sunak

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The British prime minister said the UK was a signatory to a convention prohibiting the production or use of cluster bombs, after Joe Biden agreed to send the munitions to Ukraine. The US government announced it would send cluster bombs as part of an $800m (£625m) security assistance package, in a move that Kyiv said would have an 'extraordinary psycho-emotional impact' on the occupying Russian forces.

When cluster bombs detonate, they spread dozens of tiny bomblets over a wide area, with a large number burying themselves in the ground rather than exploding. In effect, the weapons therefore leave a field of anti-personnel mines in their wake, posing a lethal danger to civilians, often children

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