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Cluster bombs aren't restricted because a country uses them out of malice, they're restricted because they tend to leave a bunch of small unexploded munitions all over the place. The kind kids end up finding decades after the fact. Often with tragic results.

1. The territory in question has already been cluster bombed by Russia to such an extent that further cluster bombing isn't going to make a substantial difference to the future risk
2. The territory in question is Ukraine's own territory, meaning they are able to decide if they're okay with writing some of it off for the foreseeable future by rendering it unsafe with unexploded munitions. It's also considerably easier to track where their own munitions are deployed than it would be to track somebody else's, which helps to direct future de-mining efforts and identify areas that shouldn't be used before those efforts take place