President Biden defended what he called a 'very difficult decision' to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine, saying the war-torn country 'needed' the controversial weapons to fight off invading Russian troops.
, which disperse small munitions or bombs over wide areas, can explode after battle and sometimes injure or kill innocent people.
"The Ukrainians are running out of ammunition, the ammunition that they used to call them 155-millimeter weapons. This is a— this is a war relating to munitions, and they’re running out of those— that ammunition, and we’re low on it. And so what I finally did, took the recommendation of the Defense Department, to not permanently, but to allow for [their use] in this transition period," he said in the interview, conducted Friday.President Joe Biden at the White House last week.
"All the Ukrainians and Zelenskyy are asking for is to give them the same weapons the Russians have to use in their own country against Russians who are in their own country. They’re — they do not want these to be used in Russia. They want these as self-defense to use against Russians in their own country of Ukraine. I don’t see anything wrong with that," McCaul said.
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