The Pentagon announced on Wednesday a new $375 million arms package for Ukraine that includes cluster bombs, HIMARS ammunition, artillery rounds, anti-tank weapons, and other military equipment.
US officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the package will include an undisclosed number of medium-range air-to-ground cluster bombs. The Pentagon listed the weapons as “air-to-ground munitions.”
Cluster bombs are banned by over 100 countries due to their indiscriminate nature, but the US has been pouring them into Ukraine since last year. The US has sent 155mm artillery shells packed with cluster bombs, a cluster variant of ATACM missiles, and now a form of the widely-banned bomb that can be fired by Ukrainian fighter jets.
Cluster bombs scatter small submunitions over large areas, making them especially hazardous for civilians. Submunitions that don’t explode immediately on impact can kill or maim civilians for decades to come, as they have in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, where the US dropped hundreds of millions of bomblets during the Vietnam War.
According to a Pentagon press release, the full $375 million arms package includes:
- Air-to-ground munitions
- Ammunition for HIMARS
- 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition
- Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided (TOW) missiles
- Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems
- M1117 Armored Security Vehicles
- Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles
- Light tactical vehicles
- Armored bridging systems
- Small arms
- Patrol boats
- Demolitions equipment and munitions
- Spare parts, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation
The package is being provided through the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows the US to ship weapons straight from US military stockpiles. The Pentagon also released a fact sheet that said the US has committed $56.3 billion in weapons and other military equipment to Ukraine since the Russian invasion was launched in February 2022.
Horrible as they are, cluster bombs are a pimple on the butt of nuclear war, which is where we're all headed.
ok polskie
do you live in poland? Is your russian propoganda BS sensor not going off at ALL?
cmon you gotta be a true eastern european – even the belarusians got the sensor built in
You need to update your info. It turns out that the pager terrorist act ( that put the world on a new direction, just like the U.S. did when it dropped two nuclear weapons on Japan) was/is completely Israeli. The suggestions of others involved is pure deception.
israel is pathetic why did you make this about israel?
We can disagree on the r*pe of my country , but we can agree on israel
or was I the wrong person?
LET US FIRE THE DAMN MISSILES
BY THE TIME YOU IDIOTS LET US WE WIL… WE WILL HAVE MADE OUR OWN PATRIOT SYSTEMS
You say the US is stupid, Z suggests we're cowards, and you're right for the wrong reasons. We're stupid cowards for starting the proxy war and urging Z not to abide by Minsk agreements and not to agree to peace long ago (for the instant he was actually inclined to do so). If Ukraine is so eager to fight, do it with your own arms and cash and keep me out of WWIII.
rus broke minsk are you?
Do you comment just to show all of us how ignorant you are?
no
i remember when I heard that Russia annexed Crimea from us – I was with my friends…
I remember when I heard that Russia fully invded us – I was on my phone
NATO is not responsible for the r*pe of my country, the damned moskals are and they will feel the same pain they’ve inflicted on my country
Why not put blame on the Clinton, Obama, Trump and Biden administrations as well? This war is a US (using Ukrainians as cannon fodder) vs Russia war. That's how the US State operates. Always has.
its impossible to convince you otherwise in this late stage of ultra libertarian different reality ruzzophilia syndrone
i might as well stick to lambasting israel
almost…
“Reality” includes looking at facts and actions that lead to a result or conclusion. And I don’t get info from the RF government. Nothing to do with any “philia”. I believe the problem here is more “phobia”, largely based on a Cold War hangover and relentless US State Department propaganda, designed for the long term goal of world hegemony by creating discord throughout that world. That’s what they DO.
According to you,
“Reality” includes looking at facts and actions that lead to a result or conclusion.”
I completely agree.
Hence, the Russophobia. if Russia decided to be a constructive member to the world and help solve issues with a forward thinking mindset and NOT INVADE MY COUNTRY AND GEORGIA FOR LAND then there would be less “russophobia”
Again,
“Reality” includes looking at facts and actions that lead to a result or conclusion.”
Part of the phobia is that Russia invaded for LAND. He would have been satisfied with security guarantees (for everybody) and to stop harassing and killing people who justifiably rebelled against their virtual disenfranchising. That Donetsk, etc be given a degree of autonomy, and STILL be part of Ukraine. We told Ukraine that that wasn't ok with US. LOL! Even brought them almost to the negotiating table a month into the SO. "WE" said no. So much for Ukrainian independence. Now when this is over your country will be owned by Blackrock, and other foreign interests. When you could have had decent mutually beneficial relations with the big country next door, like so many other countries do. And before you say "better to be owned and disposed of by the West than be a 'vassal' (or whatever) of Russia", remember that at least twice since before 2014 the country elected a president that had a peace with Russia campaign, including Zelensky himself. Till his handlers said "no, we're not doing that".
The invasion actually pushed us closer to NATO; before the invasion, we were actually officially neutral. We had offered full amnesty to the russian sponsored rebels in the east as long as they layed down their arms
If it were up to me, I would be more than happy to grant greater autonomy to the Russian minority in Donetsk and Luhansk – we would probably need to anyways due to some EU bureaucracy BS sooner or later.
The reason our peace with Russia failed was because of Russia and their repeated violations of their promises
Well, should have kept your promises. That’s what happens when you lie cheat and steal, Zelensky FA and FO
russkie talking points:
muh nukes!
muh FAFO!
muh army!
muh missile!
muh land!
muh broken toilets!
muh scary!
Zelensky talking points: Please give me more money to embezzle, I don’t have enough mansions and jewelry. Time for Zelensky to stop whining and shut up.
you talking points:
muh putins d*ck!
Its so muh big
I cant get it out of muh mouth!
So i keep it there
I beat you down so bad you have to start acting like an eight-year-old child.
8 year old? haha
Ой слава, ой слава! Україні слава! Слава Україні, хай живе Бандера, і його держава!!
Ой слава, ой слава! Україні слава! Слава Україні, Всім Героям Слава!
Note: I do not support Bandera politics; he was disgusting in that respect, but he fought for an independent Ukraine
And Ukraine could have been independent if they had kept their word.
we are independent you moskal
Hahahahaha, how’s that working out for you? Not well, last I heard. That midget moron was here again this week, hat in hand, begging for more money and arms.
For those off you are wondering what the young neo-Nazi fascist Banderite posted here is a literal translation of this child rant.
Oh glory, oh glory! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Ukraine, long live Bandera, and your power!!
Oh glory, oh glory! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Ukraine, Glory to all Heroes!
no
Oh glory, oh glory! Ukraine’s glory! Glory to Ukraine, long live Bandera, and his country!
and i literally said I don’t support banderas disgusting politics only that he fought for a free ukraine
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Yeah, like Hitler fought for a stronger Germany after WWI humiliation. Same logic. You've said you identify as Jewish. You DO know that Jews were one of the peoples that Bandera had done away with, right?
The stupidity started in 1991.
9 and a half months
and screw isolationism
remember ww2 and ww1?
about ww2… you guys helped the soviets a lot with everything so stop overestimating the soviet military alone with no american help
about ww1.. sure it was pretty late but it probbaly hastened the wars end by a few months and maybe almost a year
isolationism is bad… you will all soon learn like during the world wars
get your head out of the clouds
OK coward hiding in a university, please return to Ukraine and go to the front lines ASAP!
It's the only way for you to win the Darwin Award and cleanse the gene pool of your damaged genes.
For someone in active duty combat, they spend a lot of time on the internet. Just sayin’.
Also, Ukrainian leaders were long ago bought off by the US. There was no logical reason why Ukraine couldn’t trade with both the EU and Russia, other than to isolate Russia, which at the time was actually a better deal for Ukraine.
Until people stop being brainwashed that it is about “democracy”, when it is really about US economic dominance, more countries will sacrifice their people’s lives, while the leaders get rich and everyone else gets poorer (or dead).
Ex-president Zelensky has a nice place in Tuscany, along with a winery there. Also has a nice pad in Florida. Got money stashed somewhere in South or Central America. Still barking orders although he is no longer legally the head of Kiev.
yes he is legally the head of our country
and i am sick of the utter bull about his winery in tuscany or his villa in florida or whatever else you make up
that never happened, it was fact checked my multiple reputable sources
we eastern europeans know
I thought that you were a cold low IQ cowardly fool, but you really are quite emotional.
Wishing the extinction of all life on earth to satisfy your maniacal hatred is way beyond low IQ.
There must be some genetic defect in some Ukrainians especially in your family.
You do know that typic in all capital letters is the mark of an insane person?
Oh yes, giving yourself an up vote is typical of dishonest behavior, but typical of you and your family.
stopinsulting my family you animal
and Ukrainians have no genetic defects so much as you
Ukraine is getting a great deal. All of those weapons for only $375 million?
Ukraine is now BlackRock.
And JC Morgan. The Wall Street Journal published a report concerning Blackrock setting up things to essentially purchase Ukraine.
Try again! It's $8 Billion!
https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-announces-8-billion-military-aid-ukraine-2024-09-26/
https://x.com/i/status/1839272524485456330
The neocon-inspired Biden-Harris administration: here it goes again, throwing gas on the fire.
It’s too bad that the moral standing of the US government is getting lower and lower.
This will have consequences for years to come.
The criminal kleptocracy of Joey Biden, Harris, and NEOCON politicians is right at home and in cahoots with the most corrupt evil country on the planet known as Ukraine!
" the package will include an undisclosed number of medium-range air-to-ground cluster bombs. "
Uncle Sammy is a war criminal.
Has been for centuries…!
i am in ukraine lviv didnt move somewhere else
and dont you DARE INSULT MY GENE POOL
Just like Adolf Hitler, this dictator Voldemort Zelensky is social engineering / manipulating the masses of the world. In Hitler's case it was to advance an evil philosophy and in Zelensky's case it is to steal as much money as he can get away with.
The Amazing Hypnotic Voldemort Zelensky.
He comes to see Joey Biden in the White House and leaves with a swag bag full of cash and weapons.
It's only another $8 Billion. "A Billion here and a Billion there and soon you are talking real money"!
Before leaving office in January Joey Biden will either bankrupt America or start an extinction level event more commonly called World War III.
https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-announces-8-billion-military-aid-ukraine-2024-09-26/
I have been in Russia hundreds of times and find the people friendly and atmosphere pleasant.
It has no stinking rotting corpses like in Ukraine.