Cluster bombs kill, wound hundreds of civilians in Ukraine, monitor finds
A new report reveals civilians are bearing the brunt of attacks, with more than 1,200 casualties since Russia’s full-scale invasion began
Russia has used the widely banned weapons “extensively” since the first day of the war, it said, adding that Ukraine too had used the weapons and faces Russian accusations of deploying them inside of Russia.
At least 193 cluster munition casualties were recorded in Ukraine in 2024, out of 314 globally, the report said.
In total, more than 1,200 such casualties have been registered in Ukraine since the start of the war, most of them in 2022.
But the report stressed that the figure was surely a dramatic underestimate, pointing out that last year alone, Ukraine suffered around 40 cluster munition attacks where casualty numbers were not given.