The photos show empty MLRS warheads collected in #Ukraine primarily in Saltivka district of Kharkiv. Those looking like baskets carried submunitons — hundreds bomblets dropped at the target and explode while the enpty basket just falls on the ground. They were all fired by #Russia at the town in spring 2022. These are specifically the #cluster munitions, whose supply to Ukraine triggered Dmitry Medvedev so much that he ranted about "finally opening our arsenals of the munitions". Of course, they already have long ago, and used them against densely populated towns. The difference is that Ukraine is going to use them not against Russian towns but against their fortified positions in Ukraine. Another difference is that while Russian submunitions have failure rate up to 30%, which results in the area polluted by unexploded but still dangerous bomblets, the ones that are going to be supplied have failure rates below 3%.
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@kravietz Not only that, Russia has been using incidentary munitions not dissimilar to the infamous white phosphorus since the very beginning — and yet, this still gets media attention, that Russia will be forced to start using something as a reaction to something new being given to Ukraine. I'm shocked 🤦
People have been fed this bullshit numerous times already and yet they keep buying it, what's next then, another round of nuclear blackmail?

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