US supplied cluster munitions are already being used against civilian targets in Donbass

US supplied cluster munitions are already being used against civilian targets in Donbass, and already failing to detonate.

The man in this video holds a shaped charge variant of the “DPICM” submunition included in the payload.

As we have previously documented on this channel, this type of submunition composes a small portion of the payload - the majority is made up of fragmentation munitions.

A personal note - I strongly believe that the supply of these munitions to Ukraine is proof positive that both Ukraine and their backers have run short on munitions
That said, given that Ukraine continues to use these newly provided shells even now against civilian targets implies three things.

- There are enough of these shells to, at least on paper, sustain the war effort to a degree which allows wasting them on civilian targets (to diminished efficancy against military targets)

-Ukraine is desperate enough to continue these terror attacks despite being short on munitions.

-Despite the collosal amount of death so far, the National Guard and “Territorial Defense” corpus currently remains intact, either at a functional level or merely a command staff level.
I suspect the latter, but it is quite interesting that men with green arm bands started popping up in almost all videos around the liberation of Artemovsk, and we now hear much updates of TB units in combat over the last few weeks.

To suffice: three symptoms implying the professional and several conscript armies are destroyed, leaving now the national guard remnants to actually fight alongside conscripts instead of purely hiding behind them as a shield.

Terror attacks are almost certain to escalate in frequency as this final barrier cracks apart.

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