The head of NATO has rejected Ukrainian requests for it to be supplied with 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.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.
“NATO has neither recommended nor supplied these kinds of weapons,” he reportedly said while attending the Munich conference on Saturday. “We supply artillery and other types of weapons, but not cluster bombs.”the demands for the highly controversial weapons, with the request for cluster bombs, in particular, drawing the ire of many officials.
However, Kubrakov has since defended the request, saying that there are “no obstacles” legally speaking to the handover of the weapons, which he insists will “only” be used “against the armed forces of the Russian Federation”.
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