Upping the Ante in Crimea with Western Value Cluster Bombing of Sevastopol Civilians
Ukraine attacks Crimea with U.S.-coordinated satellite positioning and ATACMS armed with cluster munitions
“Our moral authority has not derived from being a signatory to the Convention Against Cluster Munitions.”
Biden Administration National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, July 2023
According to a RT 1555 GMT (7:55 Pacific) update:
The death toll in the Ukrainian shelling of Sevastopol has risen to five, including three children, the city’s governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev, told reporters. At least 124 people have been injured, including 27 children, five of whom are in intensive care, Russia’s Health Ministry said.
It appears the Biden administration’s recent decision to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of certain weapons to hit Russian targets - NOT including longer-range ATACMS - has also hit a deadly snag, or Zelensky didn't get the memo. Today at least five Crimean civilians died, including three children (and counting), as a holiday at the beach turned into a killing field, under a downpour of fragments from US-made cluster bombs.
“Responsibility for the deliberate missile attack on the civilians of Sevastopol is borne above all by Washington, which supplied these weapons to Ukraine, and by the Kyiv regime, from whose territory this strike was carried out," the ministry said.
According to Reuters, the Kremlin Defense Ministry, without elaborating, will respond. Neither Ukraine nor the United States has commented.
So, while US-supplied weapons prolong hefty kill counts in both Gaza and Eastern Europe, our undisputed Western moral authority keeps dragging the rest of us up the escalation ladder.