The White House will reportedly announce a new round of weapons for Ukraine including another set of cluster munitions.
Among the bombs are the Anti-Personnel/Anti-Materiel, or APAM, an older version of the long-range ATACMS, which carries warheads containing hundreds of cluster bomblets, according to Politico.
This will not be the first batch of ATACMS's sent to Ukraine, however this upcoming shipment of missiles will reportedly have a longer range than the previous supply of mid-range rockets, which were delivered to Ukraine in September.
The Pentagon was able to use savings from a previous Army contract for Ukraine weapons, the DOD official said.
Cluster munitions, also called cluster bombs, can carry hundreds of small bombs, CNN reported. The canisters break open and the bomblets spread out and send shrapnel that is designed to kill troops or destroy armored vehicles.
More than 100 countries, including some of the U.S.'s closest allies, have signed on to an agreement to ban cluster munitions but the U.S. and Russia are not among the signees.
The weapons are known to cause severe injuries months or years after a conflict has ended, frequently among children who gather up bomblets that did not detonate when dropped.
President Biden struggled for months with the decision to provide the munitions.
He ultimately determined that depriving Ukraine of the armaments would leave it defenseless against Russia. He stated that it was a provisional measure until conventional artillery ammunition could be produced in more significant quantities.
The Human Rights Watch claims that Russia is using cluster munitions, leading to hundreds of deaths in Ukraine.
