Canada, Spain, France, England and Germany do not agree to send cluster bombs to Ukraine

Canada reiterated its opposition to the use of cluster munitions after the United States announced it would supply Ukraine with cluster munitions as a new contribution to defending Kiev against Russia. “We do not support the use of cluster munitions and are committed to ending the effects cluster munitions have on civilians, especially children,” the Canadian government said in a statement. "Canada is fully compliant with the Convention" of Oslo, added the executive.

Spain is against the sending of cluster bombs to Ukraine, decided by the US to provide a further contribution to the Kiev counter-offensive. This is what the defense minister of Madrid, Margarita Robles, specified. Robles said the decision to send cluster bombs was made by the US government, not NATO, of which Spain is a member.France had said it will "understand" a possible supply of US cluster bombs to Ukraine, but will not manufacture or supply them to any country, the French defense ministry said. In fact, Paris is a signatory to the 2008 Convention which bans this type of ammunition.

England is a signatory to the Oslo Convention which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions and discourages their use, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said after the United States said it would supply such munitions to the Ukraine.Germany has also made it known that it does not deem it possible to supply cluster bombs to Ukraine, since it is a signatory country to the Convention for the ban of this type of munitions: the German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, recalled this.