Biden administration approves controversial weapons for Ukraine
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🗓️ 8 July 2023
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USA TODAY Pentagon Correspondent Tom Vanden Brook explains why cluster munitions are controversial, as the U.S. sends an order to Ukraine.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Saturday, |
| 0:07.6 | the 8th of July, 2023. |
| 0:11.2 | Today, a closer look at the cluster munitions the U.S. is sending Ukraine, plus higher |
| 0:26.0 | in remains steady, and the homeless world cup kicks off. |
| 0:36.6 | The Pentagon announced yesterday that it was supplying Ukraine with so-called cluster |
| 0:41.0 | munitions. |
| 0:42.0 | I spoke with USA Today Pentagon correspondent Tom Vandenbrook about the controversial |
| 0:47.2 | weapons and about who's expected to pay for European defense going forward. |
| 0:53.4 | Welcome back to the showtop. |
| 0:54.6 | Taylor, good to be here. |
| 0:55.9 | So it's been a busy week for news from the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:58.9 | One of the big developments for the U.S. is that the Biden administration plans to send |
| 1:04.2 | these so-called cluster munitions to Ukrainian troops. |
| 1:08.4 | Tom, what are these, and why are they controversial? |
| 1:11.7 | Taylor, they are artillery shells that were sending to Ukraine that contained numerous |
| 1:17.0 | bomblets inside of them, so that when the shell explodes, they send a number of small |
| 1:21.7 | bombs either down on armored vehicles, they're designed to penetrate those or into troop |
| 1:28.5 | concentrations where there are fragments that may or kill them. |
| 1:32.5 | They're controversial because there's what they call a dud rate, not all of them go |
| 1:37.5 | off. |
| 1:38.5 | Some of these get caught in trees and vegetation and soft ground, and they act as essentially |
| 1:42.7 | landmines, and they can remain lethal for decades, and they have in the past. |
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