Lithuania on Thursday quit an international convention banning cluster bombs citing security concerns over neighbouring ...

Lithuania on Thursday quit an international convention banning cluster bombs, citing security concerns over neighbouring ...

Russian forces have shelled Sloviansk, Donetsk region, using cluster munitions, striking a gas station and parked vehicles.

Cluster munitions scatter explosive submunitions over wide areas, many of which fail to detonate on impact, contaminating environments with deadly unexploded ordnance. This jeopardizes the safe return ...

Vilnius (AFP) – Lithuania on Thursday quit an international convention banning cluster bombs, citing security concerns over neighbouring Russia in a move that has drawn criticism from human ...

Lithuania on Thursday quit an international convention banning cluster bombs citing security concerns over neighbouring Russia, in a move that has drawn criticism from human rights groups ...

The Lithuanian parliament voted to leave the cluster munitions convention last July, but the country had to wait six months after submitting exit documents to the UN for the decision to take full ...

Residents of Dobropillia in eastern Ukraine have become used to Russian attacks since their neighbour invaded in February 2022 but Friday's cluster munition attack was of a different order.

The necessary documents have been submitted to the UN. Lithuania argues that it needs all means to deter a potential ...

Lithuania formally withdrew on March 6 from the Convention on Cluster Munitions, an international treaty that bans the ...