The use of cluster munitions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been recorded by a number of eyewitnesses and journalists, as well as representatives of the UN, humanitarian and public organiz
Unexploded cluster shell in Kharkiv region, 2022
Unexploded cluster munition submunitions in Kharkiv region, 2022
An employee of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine near a fragment of a Russian rocket in Kharkiv, March 23, 2022
Remains of clusters and other munitions collected by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region, May 10, 2022
A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Cluster munitions are air-dropped or ground-launched weapons. They release
US Honest John missile warhead cutaway around 1960, showing M134 bomblets filled with sarin
Half of a surface-to-air missile site in North Vietnam blanketed in exploding bomblets dispersed by a US cluster munition, Vietnam War
A cluster bomb is dropped at the Nightmare Range in South Korea
SD2 Butterfly Bomb circa 1940. Wings rotate as bomb falls, unscrewing the arming spindle connected to the fuze.