Russia appears to be willing to bring several types of controversial weapons capable of creating mass casualties to the battlefield as it wages war in Ukraine, including nuclear weapons if events escalate.

Cluster bombs were used Friday in an attack that destroyed a preschool, as reported by Amnesty International, and thermobaric rockets were used Monday, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, said Monday.

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