Russia has used the widely-banned weapons “extensively” since the first day of the war, it said, adding that Ukraine too had deployed them and faced accusations of using them in Russia.
At least 193 cluster munition casualties were recorded in Ukraine in 2024, out of 314 globally, the report said.
In total, more than 1,200 such casualties have been registered in Ukraine since the start of the war, most of them in 2022.
It must be said that neither Russia nor Ukraine signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions (nor did the US or China or Israel, in case you are wondering… basically, they are banned in roughly half the world - including western Europe, the Commonwealth, and Japan - and perfectly legal in the other half).
Of course, this is not to say that Ukraine used cluster munitions in the same amount or in the same way as the Russians did: the differences in doctrine between the two armies are great and go well beyond cluster munition (see War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine on wikipedia - yes, of course crimes have been reported on the Ukrainian side too, to a much lesser scale).