MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Sunday that Russia has enough cluster munitions to answer if Ukraine will use the weapons.
It is pertinent to mention Ukraine started receiving cluster weapons from the United States. “Russia has a sufficient stockpile of various kinds of cluster munitions,” Putin told a state-television journalist. The cluster weapons can disperse up to several hundred small explosive charges, which can remain unexploded in the ground. “If they are used against us, we reserve ourselves the right to tit-for-tat actions,” Putin said.
He added Russia had not yet used the weapons despite a “certain shortage of munitions at some point”. Human Rights Watch and Ukrainian forces have accused Russia of already using cluster munitions on the battlefield.
