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Kiev demanded the United States and European countries to supply its Army with cluster munition and precision bombs, according to Foreign Policy.
According to the undisclosed sources, over the past month, Ukrainian officials have been asking for US-made dual-purpose improved conventional munitions, or DPICMs, as well as for their European-made equivalents. These are cluster munitions aimed at bursting into scores of smaller submunitions in order to destroy military equipment as well as enemy servicemen.
Kiev is reportedly begging for cluster munitions despite the fact that it is currently prohibited to export such systems in the United States.
In addition, the Ukrainians requested Swedish-French BONUS cluster munitions, guided precision bombs made by Boeing and Saab, as well as Swedish RBS-70 MANPADS.
Ukrainian member of parliament Alexandra Ustinova claimed that “Sweden has tons of weapons that we need.”
Russia earlier sent a note to NATO countries because of the military supplies to Ukraine. Spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the supply of weapons to Kiev brings NATO closer to the line of a direct clash with Russia.
