Cluster bombs to Ukraine will damage US moral leadership, Democrat says

Ukrainian soldier holds a defused cluster bomb from an MSLR missile used by Russian army, in the region of Kharkiv, Ukraine, in October. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

The decision to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine risks costing the US its “moral leadership” in world affairs, the influential California Democratic congresswoman Barbara Lee said.

“We know what takes place in terms of cluster bombs being very dangerous to civilians,” Lee said. “They don’t always immediately explode. Children can step on them. That’s a line we should not cross.”