 Russian Defense Minister threatens use of cluster munitions in Ukraine. Russia reserves the right to use nuclear munitions in Ukraine in response to U.S. supplies of the banned weapons to Kiev. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said, though Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of using cluster bombs in the 17-month conflict, Shoigu claimed Moscow has refrained from doing so out of humanitarian concerns. However, this decision may be reconsidered, he said, at a security conference in Moscow without elaborating further. We also have cluster munitions in our armament. Ukraine received supplies of U.S. cluster munitions in July, on condition to use them exclusively against Russian soldiers. Moscow has accused Ukrainian forces of using the munitions to shell Russian-occupied territories. Sergei Shoigu said that preliminary results of military operations show that Ukraine's military resources are almost exhausted. Under the slogan of support for Kiev, the United States cleans the military arsenals of its partners in various regions of the world in exchange for which it promises them a preferential supply of Western-made equipment. In fact, the market for products of the U.S. military-industrial complex is being cleaned up. Partners will have to pay a lot of money to the United States for new weapons and agree to limit sovereignty in the security sphere. Shoigu said, meanwhile, Shoigu played up Russia's role in debunking many myths of superior Western military standards, including the training of tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers by the United States and its NATO allies. Many of them have been sent to the frontline. Captured and afterwards, spoke in detail about the methods of NATO training. Shoigu said, in most cases, the reviews were negative.