On June 28, she spoke publicly for the first time since former fans began speaking up. Becky (who prefers not to share her last name) said she had an experience on-stage at a Miranda Sings show she felt was inappropriate.īallinger did not respond to multiple requests for comment from TIME. Several have since come forward on social media, including one named Johnny Silvestri, who says he had been in group video calls beginning at age 15 with other then-underage fans, as well as with Ballinger, her ex-husband Joshua David Evans, and sometimes her brother Trent Ballinger (her family members were frequent guests in her vlogs, and many fans formed what they saw as friendships with her siblings). Saturday marked the 500th day of the Russian invasion.This caused some fans to reconsider the experiences they had with Ballinger and determine, in hindsight, that they felt they were inappropriate. “We deferred the decision for as long as we could,” Sullivan said Friday, acknowledging the risk of “civilian harm from unexploded ordnance.” “But there is also a massive risk of civilian harm if Russian troops and tanks roll over Ukrainian positions and take more Ukrainian territory and subjugate more Ukrainian civilians because Ukraine does not have enough artillery,” he argued. Sullivan also said that “Ukraine is committed to post-conflict de-mining efforts to mitigate any potential harm to civilians, and this will be necessary regardless of whether the United States provides these munitions or not, because of Russia’s widespread use of cluster munitions.” is sending Ukraine have a very low failure rate compared to the ones Russia has been using, which Sullivan said has failure rates between 30 and 40%. In his Sunday interview, Biden echoed an argument made by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Friday: that the cluster bombs the U.S. “Both sides should immediately stop using them and not try to get more of these indiscriminate weapons,” argued Mary Wareham, acting arms director at HRW. In the years since World War II, this type of weapon has killed between 56,5000 and 86,500 civilians worldwide, The New York Times reported.Ī recent Human Rights Watch report found that, in 2022, Ukrainian forces “used cluster munitions that caused numerous deaths and serious injuries to civilians.” HRW has also documented hundreds of civilian deaths caused by Russia’s use of the weapon. Cluster munitions that fail to explode initially can detonate years later, and have often caused indiscriminate harm to civilians.
allies, are designed to break apart midair and detonate upon impact, but historically have had an extremely high failure rate.
The bombs, banned by more than 100 countries, including many U.S. And I think they needed them.” Biden added that the move “was a very difficult decision on my part” and that he had “discussed this with our allies” and “our friends on the Hill.” “They either have the weapons to keep the Russians from stopping the Ukrainian offensive…or they don’t. “This is a war relating to munitions, and they’re running out of ammunitions,” Biden said of the Ukrainian armed forces. President Joe Biden defended his controversial decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine in a Sunday morning interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.
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