Jen Psaki is Unaware of Cluster Bomb Use in Ukraine. 09 Feb 2015

Jen Psaki, State Department Spokesperson.
U.S. Department of State – Daily Briefing: February.09.2015
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/ind…
US PARTLY TO BLAME FOR UKRAINE’S USE OF CLUSTER BOMBS: McCain – 06 Feb – The US is partially responsible for Ukraine’s indiscriminate use of cluster bombs in the country’s east, US Senator John McCain told Russia’s Sputnik news agency. According to McCain, it is due to the US failing to send Kiev other arms.
“I think that if we had provided them with the weapons they need, they wouldn’t have felt they had to use cluster bombs. So, it’s partially our fault,” McCain, who is also the US Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, told Sputnik.
Read more (audio): http://rt.com/news/229795-us-ukraine-…
CLUSTER BOMBS REPORTED IN UKRAINE CONFLICT AS U.S. RETHINKS LETHAL AID – 04 Feb – […] Lugansk was the site of rocket attacks on Jan. 27 that killed two people and damaged numerous houses in a residential area, the OSCE reported Tuesday after inspecting the bombing scene. The monitoring team reported that the injuries, craters and structural damage were consistent with those “typically caused by shrapnel elements from cluster munition.”
The OSCE observer team’s report on Wednesday also cited the use of cluster munitions in an attack on the separatist-controlled village of Komsomolske on Monday in which a 37-year-old woman was killed and a 5-year-old girl gravely injured.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/l…
HRW URGES KIEV TO ACKNOWLEDGE CLUSTER BOMB USE, STOP INDISCRIMINATE KILLINGS IN E. UKRAINE – 17 Jan – Kiev should stop the Indiscriminate warfare in southeast Ukraine, Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth said, commenting on recent statements by the country’s PM, Arseny Yatsenyuk.
During his visit to Germany earlier in January, Yatsenyuk was questioned by Frankfurter Allgemeine on the cluster bombs and Grad multiple rocket launchers against town and villages in southeast Ukraine.
But the prime minister rejected the allegation, saying that “there is no evidence to that. No evidence,” and suggested that more attention should be paid to the Republic of Crimea, which reunited with Russia in March 2014.
However, Roth told RIA-Novosti news agency that Yatsenyuk lied to the German media as Human Right Watch (HRW) had “published a lot of evidence that Ukraine refuses to distinguish between military targets and civilians as required by the laws and customs of war.”
Read more: http://rt.com/news/223699-ukraine-hrw…
UKRAINE USED CLUSTER BOMBS, EVIDENCE INDICATES – 20 Oct – The Ukrainian Army appears to have fired cluster munitions on several occasions into the heart of Donetsk, unleashing a weapon banned in much of the world into a rebel-held city with a peacetime population of more than one million, according to physical evidence at the scene and interviews with witnesses and victims.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/wor…
VIDEO: Lugansk. Ukraine Air-Drop Cluster Bombs Civilians. 31 July 2014 (LPR)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-zbB…