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A recent poll showed that more than half of adults in the U.S. disapproved of President Joe Biden's decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine, U.S. political news website The Hill reported on Wednesday.
As many as 51 percent of respondents said they don't approve of Biden's decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, while 39 percent said they approve of his decision and 11 percent said they don't know, according to the poll conducted by Quinnipiac University.
The poll surveyed 2,056 U.S. adults from July 13 to July 17.
The United States announced earlier July that the cluster bombs will be a part of a new military assistance package worth $800 million to Ukraine. The move has elicited criticism worldwide.
The cluster bombs are a type of explosive weapon scattering tiny bomblets over an area the size of several football pitches. But not all of them detonate on impact. The unexploded bombs, known as duds, can remain embedded in the ground for years, posing a severe danger to civilians, most notably children.
In total, 123 countries have signed the 2008 Oslo Convention banning production, storage, sale and use of cluster bombs.
The Pentagon said on July 14 that the cluster bombs provided by the U.S. had arrived in Ukraine.
Read more:
What are cluster bombs and why is the U.S. sending them to Ukraine so controversial?
(With input from agencies)
(Cover: Activists and international delegations stand next to cluster bomb units, during a visit to a Lebanese military base at the opening of the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, in the southern town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, September 12, 2011. /CFP)
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