Attacks Intensify in Exchange of Inhumane Weapons Cluster Munitions…Nightmare Becomes Reality with Massive Explosion of “Nuclear Facility” Targeted by Russian Military

Both Ukraine and Russia are intensifying their attacks.

The U.S. has provided Ukraine with cluster munitions, an inhumane weapon, and on July 20, a U.S. National Security Council spokesman and investigator stated that the Ukrainian military is in fact using cluster munitions. Russian President Vladimir Putin responded in an interview on state television, “Our country has the right to respond in the same way.

Cluster munitions are brutal weapons in which a parent bomb explodes in mid-air, causing countless child bombs to spread, turning a few hundred meters square into a sea of fire. In many cases, civilians are involved, and the consequences are too cruel. …… The Oslo Convention, to which about 110 countries are signatories, prohibits the possession and use of these weapons. The United States, Russia, and Ukraine are not signatories.

Actual damage has begun to occur.

On July 22, German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle announced that a cameraman for the station had been injured by cluster munitions fired by Russian forces while reporting in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that one reporter from a military news crew was killed and three others were injured in a cluster munition attack in Ukraine. It condemned the attack, saying that “those who provided cluster munitions to Ukraine are responsible for the loss of life.

Both Forces Escalate

Itsuro Nakamura, a professor emeritus at Tsukuba University and an expert on the situation in Russia, said, “Ukraine began to turn the tables in June.

Ukraine has been on the offensive since June, but it has not been going well. One of the factors that are preventing the Ukrainian army from advancing is the trenches of the Russian army. The use of cluster munitions is effective in destroying the trenches. The use of cluster munitions is effective in destroying trenches, because the spreading of the child bombs over a wide area allows for a broad area of attack rather than a pinpoint point.

However, there is a danger that the use of cluster munitions will escalate the attacks of both armies. As more and more of them are put into the front line, the damage will increase. There could be a large number of civilian casualties.

There is also a frightening scenario. The Russian military could use cluster munitions against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, located in southern Ukraine. Nakamura continues.

Two of the six reactors at Zaporizhzhia are in a dangerous state of overheating.

The Russian military may attack the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in order to spread radioactive materials and destroy agriculture, Ukraine’s main industry. A cluster bomb would not give the reactor, which cannot be cooled, a moment’s respite. It would cause a huge explosion and disperse radioactive materials. In effect, it would be a nuclear attack. A ‘second Chernobyl nightmare’ is now a reality, with the potential for devastating damage to 100 million people around the world.

With the exchange of cluster munitions, the war between Ukraine and Russia has entered an even more dangerous phase. The intensification of attacks that cause endless damage seems inevitable.