U.S. preparing to send new batch of cluster munitions to Ukraine - NYT

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is planning to send more cluster munitions to Ukraine after the Ukrainian army successfully used the weapons on the battlefield against Russian invaders.

That's according to The New York Times, Ukrinform reports.

"Now, two months after the United States shipped an initial tranche of the munitions to Ukraine to ensure its troops did not run out of ammunition, three American officials said the Biden administration is planning to send more, and soon," the article read.

One official said the weapons were key to helping Ukraine maintain the momentum its troops just recently gained on the southern front against Russian forces.

Some Ukrainian troops said U.S.-supplied cluster munitions have been a powerful addition to a slew of weapons the West has sent for the counteroffensive, and a necessary substitute for their dwindling stocks of 155mm artillery shells.

So far, American officials said, cluster munitions have been used to strike concentrations of Russian troops, artillery systems, air defenses, ammunition depots, radar stations and vehicles.

U.S. officials will not say how many cluster munitions were included in the first shipment, out of the hundreds of thousands that the Pentagon has available.