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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Good. These things have better penetration than the alternatives.

The most dangerous thing for Ukrainians is invading Russians, and this is the best tool to remove that danger.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 11 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The rounds, which could help destroy Russian tanks, are part of a new military aid package for Ukraine set to be unveiled in the next week.

The munitions can be fired from U.S. Abrams tanks that, according to a person familiar with the matter, are expected be delivered to Ukraine in the coming weeks.

It follows an earlier decision by the Biden administration to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine, despite concerns over the dangers such weapons pose to civilians.

The United States used depleted uranium munitions in massive quantities in the 1990 and 2003 Gulf Wars and the NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia in 1999.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, says that studies in former Yugoslavia, Kuwait, Iraq and Lebanon "indicated that the existence of depleted uranium residues dispersed in the environment does not pose a radiological hazard to the population of the affected regions."

Parts of the country are already strewn with unexploded ordnance from cluster bombs and other munitions and hundreds of thousands of anti-personnel mines.


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[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Now send the ATACMS already.

[–] lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We should pay china to invade russia.

[–] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

China is already claiming some currently Russian territory as its own, like it has small islands in the Pacific.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-breaks-silence-china-map-disputed-islands-1823983