UK will not supply cluster munitions to Ukraine, says Sunak
by Luke Harding in Kyiv and Michael Savage from World news | The Guardian on (#6CT6S)
Prime minister rules out following controversial US move but says he will urge allies to to boost other aid
Rishi Sunak has ruled out supplying Ukraine with cluster bombs, saying the UK will not follow the Biden administration's controversial move and will instead press countries to boost their aid to Kyiv in other ways".
On Friday, Joe Biden defended what he said was a difficult decision" to send widely banned cluster munitions to Volodymyr Zelenskiy's government. Human rights groups criticised the White House and there was unease among some Democrats, with one calling it an unnecessary and a terrible mistake".
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