American senators called for the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine

Four U.S. Senators from the Republican Party called on the Administration of the U.S. President to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions.

According to the Foreign Relations Committee, they sent a letter with their appeal to Joe Biden.

According to parliamentarians, these munitions could help Ukrainian forces on the battlefield, particularly in defense of Bakhmut and other areas of the front.

The petition was signed by Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Mike Rogers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, as well as U.S. Senators Jim Risch, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Roger Wicker, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Politicians, in their open letter, call on the White House to transfer DPICM artillery cluster munitions to Ukraine.

“We remain deeply disappointed in your administration’s reluctance to provide Ukraine with the right type and amount of long-range fires and maneuver capability to create and exploit operational breakthroughs against the Russians.

Sadly, the immediate consequences of denying DPICM and other items in a timely manner to the Ukrainian Armed Forces are playing out on the battlefield in Bakhmut and elsewhere in Ukraine today,” the letter states.

The U.S. Senators emphasized that providing DPICM will allow Ukraine to compensate for Russia’s quantitative advantage in both personnel and artillery rounds and will allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to concentrate their use of unitary warheads against higher-value Russian targets.

According to politicians, the United States has almost 3 million such projectiles, most of which are located at US bases and bases of U.S. allies in Europe.

Republican Senators emphasize that providing such weapons will increase the effectiveness of defeating the Russian invasion forces.

DPICM (dual-purpose improved conventional munition) is a family of American artillery and rocket-propelled cluster munitions that can be equipped with shaped charge bomblets designed to engage armored vehicles or HE fragmentation submunitions to defeat manpower.

As previously reported, in January, the Minister of Defense of Estonia stated that Estonia intends to transfer cluster munition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, however, this requires the consent of Germany, the origin country of these projectiles.