00:00 The first shots of the use of cluster munitions
00:03 Presumably near Krasnogorovka
00:05 What is it?
00:07 Cluster munitions
00:09 These are shells or bombs capable of hitting a large area
00:13 They look like
00:14 Containers of various shapes
00:17 Inside which sub-munitions are a huge number of small caliber bombs
00:21 Fragmentation grenades or anti-personnel mines
00:27 In general, you can fill the emptiness of the
00:30 Container with anything
00:32 And the design itself is somewhat reminiscent of the idea of kinda
00:36 There
00:37 Is a shell
00:38 And inside there is a bloody surprise
00:41 Yes
00:42 The comparison is not the most rosy
00:45 Given
00:46 The consequences of the use of such weapons
00:49 But close to the point
00:51 When such a rocket is
00:53 Released
00:55 A parachute system is triggered
00:57 Which aligns the ammunition cassette in the air
01:00 Then
01:01 Small combat elements
01:03 Also equipped with parachutes
01:05 Are separated from the main container at a
01:08 Distance of several tens of meters from the ground
01:12 And a powerful wave of charge is scattered over
01:15 Hundreds of meters of territory
01:18 The explosion occurs directly at the ground
01:22 They are divided
01:23 Into the following types
01:25 Unmanaged and managed
01:27 Non-discarded and discarded
01:29 It is possible to
01:31 Produce such ammunition not only from an airplane
01:35 But also from missile systems
01:37 Multiple launch
01:38 Rocket systems and artillery pieces
01:42 From a combat point of view
01:44 Such cassettes increase the
01:46 Probability of an accurate hit on the target
01:50 And increase the area of destruction
01:53 This is a
01:54 Dangerous weapon of mass destruction with a terrifying effect
01:58 What is the danger?
02:00 In theory, such
02:02 Bombs are used to destroy combat targets
02:05 Enemy personnel
02:07 Its energy and strategically important
02:09 Facilities, runways and lightly armored vehicles
02:14 Ideally, they should be manageable and
02:17 Accurate
02:18 In practice
02:20 Such ammunition destroys not only military targets
02:24 But also everything
02:25 That comes to hand
02:27 Civilian objects
02:29 Cars and buses with passengers
02:31 Civilians
02:32 The weapon does
02:34 Not divide into its own and others
02:37 Everyone who is unlucky enough to be in the affected area falls
02:41 Under its fire
02:43 Even worse is the situation in which cluster bombs are used to spray biological or
02:50 Chemical weapons
02:51 History of application and reaction of the world community now they are talking
02:56 About cluster bombs because of the situation around their own
03:01 When Washington decided to transfer
03:04 Such weapons to the armed forces of Ukraine
03:08 In fact, the international convention will not be
03:12 Violated at the same time
03:14 Because neither the USA nor Ukraine signed it
03:18 But the whole world is
03:20 Already talking about the sad consequences of such a decision
03:24 Condemning the American authorities
03:27 For it
03:28 The White House was urged by Human Rights Watch
03:32 The UN Secretary General, the authorities
03:35 Of Switzerland, China, Cambodia, Laos and even former US President Donald Trump to refuse to
03:44 Transfer cluster munitions
03:47 Examples of the use of cluster munitions on the battlefield are too
03:51 Memorable
03:53 They were massively used
03:55 During the Second World War
03:57 During the US Operation Desert
04:00 Storm
04:01 In Iraq
04:02 During the wars in Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Angola
04:08 In the wars of
04:10 Great Britain with Argentina and Armenia with Azerbaijan
04:14 Residents of Southeast Asia, in
04:17 Particular Laos, are more than familiar with American cluster munitions
04:22 According to historians
04:25 During the civil war in the 60s, for an average of nine years, such American bombs fell on the
04:32 Territory of Laos every eight minutes
04:35 In the half century since those events
04:38 30,000 people
04:40 Have died in Laos from the effects of the use of cluster munitions and another 20,000 people
04:47 Have become disabled. The head of the government of Cambodia Hun Sen also called on the
04:54 instigators of the conflict to reason
04:57 Out of pity for the Ukrainian people. I urge the president
05:02 Of the United States as a supplier and the president of Ukraine as a recipient not to use
05:10 Inflammation bombs in the war because the real victims will be Ukrainians
05:14 The terrible result of using cassettes is not only the result itself when applied directly
05:22 But also the consequences
05:24 After many years, the fact is that 10 to 30 percent of submunitions do not work during a strike
05:32 They remain in the ground buildings fields and cities
05:38 The worst thing is that such ammunition can wait in
05:41 The wings are to depth of tens of meters underground for a long time and it will still work one day
05:48 That is why the entire world community is now insisting not only on the rejection of the use of
05:55 Such weapons in Ukraine, but also on its complete ban in any hostilities
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