Hundreds of civilians have been killed by cluster munitions, which have left hospitals, schools and homes completely destroyed.
Russian forces have used cluster munitions to attack Ukraine at least six times since the start of their invasion on Feb. 24, and Ukrainians are believed to have used them at least once, according to a— which is urging both countries to stop and join the international treaty to ban the use of them.
Although the exact number of cluster bomb attacks remains unknown, hundreds have been reported to the organization. The Russian army has been accused of using the munitions in major Ukrainian cities such as Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Vuhledar. To understand what cluster munitions and vacuum bombs are, the kind of destruction they cause and why they’re controversial, Yahoo News spoke to David Johnson, a principal researcher at the RAND Corporation, an American global policy think tank. The interview, which took place in March, has been shortened and edited for clarity.So the way to think about a cluster munition, it is a container that has things inside of it. Those things are individual munitions.
It's an absolute in military planning that you are seriously careful about avoiding civilian casualties. And that's when war crimes happen.A new ordnance, claimed by the Russian military the world's most powerful non-nuclear bomb, explodes in a giant fireball during a test in this undated television image shown by Russian Channel One television, September 11, 2007.
One is an aerosol. When it first hits, it flows the aerosol and essentially completely blankets the range of the system in this vapor. The second stage ignites it. And so it's like you're standing in a room and [it] also fills the room full of natural gas or gasoline that's been vaporized, and throwing a match into it. And it's horrendous.
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