{"id":47621,"date":"2023-07-06T19:50:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T19:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/07\/06\/us-to-provide-ukraine-cluster-munitions-in-new-military-aid-package\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:12:54","slug":"us-to-provide-ukraine-cluster-munitions-in-new-military-aid-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2023\/07\/06\/us-to-provide-ukraine-cluster-munitions-in-new-military-aid-package\/","title":{"rendered":"US to provide Ukraine cluster munitions in new military aid package"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Editor\u2019s note: This story has been updated with additional information on July 7.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has decided to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine and is expected to announce on Friday that the Pentagon will send thousands of them as part of a new military aid package worth up to $800 million for the war effort against Russia, according to people familiar with the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision comes despite widespread concerns that the bombs can cause civilian casualties and sparked a call from the United Nations to both Russia and Ukraine to avoid using them. The Pentagon will provide munitions that have a reduced \u201cdud rate,\u201d meaning there will be far fewer unexploded rounds that can result in unintended civilian deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. officials said Thursday they expect the military aid to Ukraine will be announced on Friday. The weapons will come from Pentagon stocks and will also include Bradley and Stryker armored vehicles and an array of ammunition, such as rounds for howitzers and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as HIMARS, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2023\/07\/07\/why-the-us-is-willing-to-send-ukraine-cluster-munitions-now\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1239391927.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Why the US is willing to send Ukraine cluster munitions now<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Here is a look at what cluster munitions are, where they have been used and why the U.S. plans to provide them to Ukraine now.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long sought by Ukraine, cluster bombs are weapons that open in the air, releasing submunitions, or bomblets, that are dispersed over a large area and are intended to wreak destruction on multiple targets at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The officials and others familiar with the decision were not authorized to publicly discuss the move before the official announcement and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian officials have asked for the weapons to aid their campaign to push through lines of Russian troops and make gains in the ongoing counteroffensive. Russian forces are already using cluster munitions on the battlefield and in populated civilian areas, U.S. officials have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, some cluster munitions leave behind bomblets\u2019 that have a high rate of failure to explode \u2014 up to 40% in some cases. U.S. officials said Thursday that the rate of unexploded ordnance for the munitions that will be going to Ukraine is less than 3% and therefore will mean fewer threats left behind to civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a Pentagon briefing Thursday, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said he had no announcement to make about cluster munitions. He said the Defense Department has \u201cmultiple variants\u201d of the munitions and \u201cthe ones that we are considering providing would not include older variants with (unexploding) rates that are higher than 2.35%.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ryder would not say whether Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has reached out to NATO counterparts to address some of their concerns on the use of cluster munitions. Ryder said the U.S. is aware of reports that indicate some munitions have higher unexploding rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the decision was made to provide the munitions to Ukraine, he said the U.S. \u201cwould be carefully selecting rounds with lower dud rates, for which we have recent testing data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked how the cluster munitions, if approved, would help Ukraine, Ryder said they can be loaded with charges that can penetrate armor and fragment so they can hit multiple personnel \u2014 \u201ca capability that would be useful in any type of offensive operations.\u201d Ryder said the Russians have been using cluster munitions that have a very high dud rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oleksandra Ustinova, a member of Ukraine\u2019s parliament who has been advocating that Washington send more weapons, noted that Ukrainian forces have had to disable mines from much of the territory they are winning back from Russia. As part of that process, Ukrainians will also be able to catch any unexploded ordnance from cluster munitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe will have to de-mine anyway, but it\u2019s better to have this capability,\u201d Ustinova said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She credited Congress for pushing the Democratic president\u2019s administration over several months to change its position on the munitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the move was long overdue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow is the time for the U.S. and its allies to provide Ukraine with the systems it needs from cluster munitions to F-16s to ATACMS in order to aid their critical counteroffensive. Any further delay will cost the lives of countless Ukrainians and prolong this brutal war,\u201d said McCaul, R-Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, would give Ukraine the ability to strike Russian targets from as far as about 180 miles (300 kilometers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last week that the U.S. has been thinking about providing the cluster munitions \u201cfor a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Ukrainians have asked for it, other European countries have provided some of that, the Russians are using it,\u201d Milley said during a speech at the National Press Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cluster bombs can be fired by artillery that the U.S. has provided to Ukraine, and the Pentagon has a large stockpile of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last large-scale American use of cluster bombs was during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, according to the Pentagon. But U.S. forces considered them a key weapon during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, according to Human Rights Watch. In the first three years of that conflict, it is estimated the U.S.-led coalition dropped more than 1,500 cluster bombs in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"8640\" height=\"5760\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23187692892585.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Pentagon spokesman U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder listens to a question during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Washington.\" class=\"wp-image-107360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23187692892585.jpg.jpg 8640w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23187692892585.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23187692892585.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23187692892585.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23187692892585.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23187692892585.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 8640px) 100vw, 8640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pentagon spokesman U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder listens to a question during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Washington. (Alex Brandon\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proponents of banning cluster bombs say they kill indiscriminately and endanger civilians long after their use. Groups have raised alarms about Russia\u2019s use of the munitions in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A convention banning the use of cluster bombs has been joined by more than 120 countries who agreed not to use, produce, transfer or stockpile the weapons and to clear them after they\u2019ve been used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States, Russia and Ukraine are among the countries that have not signed on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marta Hurtado, a spokesperson for the U.N. human rights office, said Friday that \u201cthe use of such munitions should stop immediately and not be used in any place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe will urge the Russian Federation and Ukraine to join the more than 100 states that have ratified the convention of cluster munitions and that effectively ban their use,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is unclear how America\u2019s NATO allies would view the U.S. providing cluster bombs to Ukraine and whether the issue might prove divisive for their largely united support of Kyiv. More than two-thirds of the 30 countries in the alliance are signatories of the 2010 convention on cluster munitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Germany made clear on Friday that it won\u2019t be providing any cluster ammunition to Ukraine, as it joined an international treaty prohibiting the weapons more than a decade ago, but it expressed understanding for the American position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re certain that our U.S. friends didn\u2019t take the decision about supplying such ammunition lightly,\u201d German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told reporters in Berlin. \u201cWe need to remember once again that Russia has already used cluster ammunition at a large scale in its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laura Cooper, a deputy assistant secretary of defense focusing on Russia and Ukraine, recently testified to Congress that the Pentagon has assessed that such munitions would help Kyiv press through Russia\u2019s dug-in positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">____ AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee and Associated Press writers Geir Moulson, Tara Copp, Zeke Miller and Frank Jordans contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. officials said they expect the military aid to Ukraine will be announced on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":107355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":19,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[160,46,11,36,19],"tags":[],"coauthors":[342,1417,3148],"class_list":["post-47621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-europe","category-global","category-newsletters","category-pentagon"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"O3YPG5DNU5BTBCNVDQBRUO5HXQ","arc_canonical_url":"\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2023\/07\/06\/us-to-provide-ukraine-cluster-munitions-in-new-military-aid-package\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US to provide Ukraine cluster munitions in new military aid package - Defense News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"U.S. officials said they expect the military aid to Ukraine will be announced on Friday.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2023\/07\/06\/us-to-provide-ukraine-cluster-munitions-in-new-military-aid-package\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US to provide Ukraine cluster munitions in new military aid package\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"U.S. officials said they expect the military aid to Ukraine will be announced on Friday.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2023\/07\/06\/us-to-provide-ukraine-cluster-munitions-in-new-military-aid-package\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Defense News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-06T19:50:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T15:12:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nomaan Merchant, The Associated Press, Lolita C. 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