More than 100 countries have signed a protocol to not use them. While cluster bombs are not illegal under international law when used on military targets, using them on civilians is a war crime. Military expert Professor Michael Clarke has previously told Sky News cluster munitions are "on the border between conventional bombs and landmines". If Denis Pushilin's claims are confirmed, it would mark a fairly significant moment in Ukraine's use of the hugely controversial weapons. Let's get a bit more on our previous post - the Kremlin-backed official's claims that Ukrainian cluster bombs have killed a civilian in occupied Donetsk. "He hopes western support will be throttled by a Trump victory.” "Putin’s strategy in the Ukraine war is clearly to delay any military outcome until the US elections," he said. Mr Grozev also touches on the Russian president's longer-term strategy, provided he can't win the war any time soon. "I’m agnostic between the two but I can’t see neither of these happening. Mr Grozev predicted: "In six months, Prigozhin will either be dead or there will be a second coup. He wants to see him dead he can’t do that yet." "Everyone knows what they do with ‘traitors’, and Putin hasn’t done that. "Putin went on TV and called Prigozhin a traitor," he says. Speaking to the Financial Times, Bellingcat's lead Russia investigator Christo Grozev had a stark prediction. It's raised eyebrows when other critics who have merely criticised the Kremlin, like Alexei Navalny, have been sentenced to decades in penal colonies. Prigozhin was supposedly exiled to Belarus by Vladimir Putin - but has since been photographed back in St Petersburg, at a summit between the Kremlin and African leaders. One of the most perplexing moments of the war so far has been the Yevgeny Prigozhin-led mutiny by Wagner mercenaries, that was called off almost as quickly as it started.
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