Washington Post: US plans to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions for rocket artillery

The United States plans to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions for rocket artillery. Their range is greater than that of artillery cluster shells that the Pentagon is already supplying to Kyiv.

Source. This is stated in the material of The Washington Post.

The Biden administration is assessing the likelihood of a continuation of the war in Ukraine next year and possibly in the years to come, and is considering several new ways to increase support for Kyiv.

For example, there is growing support in Washington for providing cluster munitions for MLRS, which can strike at a greater depth than the artillery munitions that the United States began supplying last month, the newspaper writes.

U.S. commanders believe that Ukrainians are wasting artillery fire on Russian barriers that mimic Soviet tactics. According to one U.S. estimate, Ukrainians have fired about 2 million 155-mm artillery shells since the start of the war, nearly exhausting Western supplies. U.S. officials have urged Ukraine to instead concentrate artillery fire toward critical targets and use it to advance quickly toward its goals.

The US plans to continue to equip the Ukrainian army with many other weapons systems, including F-16 aircraft, which, according to WP, will begin arriving in Ukraine in a few months.

Background. Earlier, The Guardian wrote that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had changed their counteroffensive tactics after consulting with the US and British militaries.