NATO Chief Rejects Ukrainian Request for Outlawed Cluster Bombs, Phosphorus Munitions
by Peter Caddle
The head of NATO has rejected Ukrainian requests for it to be supplied with controversial phosphorous weapons and outlawed cluster bombs.
Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary-general of the NATO military alliance, has publicly rejected calls for the group to hand over cluster bombs and phosphorous-based incendiary weapons to Ukraine.
It comes after Olexander Kubrakov, a senior official within the Ukrainian government, called for Western powers to give his country the controversial weapons while speaking at the Munich Security Conference earlier this week.
While cluster bombs in particular have been banned by an international treaty since 2008, the Ukrainian official argued that — as Ukraine had not signed the treaty banning the weapon — that there would be no problem if it were handed the weapons to use against the Russian invaders.