In an interview with the publication, a congressman who served in Afghanistan and Iraq stressed that he did not agree with the use of these systems by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to him, their use provides only a quick, short-term benefit on the battlefield, but the failure rate of these systems is high and they will need to be removed.
“Unexploded ordnance on the battlefield is a big problem for the civilian population,” TASS quoted the US politician as saying.
Remember that earlier at the Munich Conference, the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov demanded that Western countries provide Kiev with cluster bombs and phosphorus munitions. According to him, “this type of means of combat is necessary to protect the territory.”
Later, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance does not recommend the use of cluster bombs and phosphorus munitions and does not supply them to kyiv. A member of the ruling Green Party and head of the Bundestag’s European Policy Committee, Anton Hofreiter, called this demand to Kiev reckless, stressing that “if they demand something there, this does not mean that it must be met.”
