Copenhagen and Amsterdam agreed to deliver 61 of the fighter jets to Kyiv when conditions such as successful testing and training are met.
A few feet away from a pile of U.S.-made cluster bombs, a group of Ukrainian military men listen to an earsplitting boom go off some 50 times a day — their way of trying to hold back advancing Russian forces, John Hudson and Anastacia Galouchka report.
President Biden’s decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine is the most controversial arms transfer of his presidency. Human Rights Watch called the move “,” and Germany, France, Canada, the Netherlands and other NATO allies publicly opposed it. But the deployment of the weapon has been met with little hesitation inside Ukraine’s government and military, which provided The Washington Post rare access to the equipment and soldiers using the notoriously imprecise munitions.
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