Russia to equip cruise missiles with cluster munitions, which will be used to devastate Ukraine

Russia plans to equip its Kh-32 cruise missiles with cluster munitions, the Ukranian National Resistance Center reported, citing documents obtained from the Pelcom Dubna Machine-Building Plant, which manufactures the missiles.
Those documents allegedly contain an order from the Russian Defense Ministry to the factory’s engineers to modernize the cruise missiles with a cluster warhead in October 2023.
There have been no recorded instances of Russian use of such missiles thus far.
This announcement follows an earlier report by the National Resistance Center, which stated that the Russian military-industrial complex plans to produce 683 cruise missiles and 215,000 aircraft bombs and unguided missiles in 2024.
An international convention banning the use of cluster munitions was signed in 2008, though the United States, Russia, and Ukraine are not signatories.
On July 7, the United States handed over a new military aid package for Ukraine, which included DPICM munitions, or cluster munitions. Later, U.S. President Joe Biden explained that he agreed to send cluster munitions because the Ukrainian army was short of shells.
The U.S. Department of Defense has assessed that Ukraine is using cluster munitions "properly" on the battlefield, Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said at a briefing on Aug. 10.
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stated that Russia has been using cluster munitions since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, Sullivan stressed that there is a big difference between the type of cluster munitions used by Russia and the type the United States has supplied to Ukraine.