According to the newspaper, Washington intends to guarantee that Kiev will not run out of ammunition
NEW YORK, September 7. /tass/. The US authorities intend to transfer another batch of cluster munitions to Kiev soon, The New York Times newspaper writes, citing American officials.
According to them, the administration of American President Joe Biden, two months after sending the first batch of cluster munitions, plans to send them "even more." Officials say that the United States intends to "guarantee that Ukraine will not run out of ammunition."
According to the estimates of the American side, Ukrainian soldiers release about 8 thousand artillery shells every day. Among them are hundreds of cluster munitions, officials estimated.
After the start of the special military operation, the West increased the supply of weapons and military equipment to Kiev by the amounts estimated at this stage in billions of dollars. In particular, on July 7, US President Joe Biden said that the United States had decided to transfer cluster munitions to Ukraine due to a shortage of conventional shells. On July 13, the head of the operational directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Douglas Sims, informed that Kiev had already received them from Washington.
