President Joe Biden’s decision to give Ukraine cluster munitions comes just as Kyiv faces “risk of failure” in their much-anticipated counteroffensive, according to Republican lawmakers who urge further weapons aid.
“The Biden administration cannot stop here,” said House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul in a joint statement with the top Senate Republicans overseeing U.S. diplomatic and defense policy. “This administration’s misguided fear of escalation in providing critical weapon systems ... has only served to prolong the war, embolden Vladimir Putin, cost Ukrainian lives, and, indeed, put the entire Ukrainian counteroffensive at risk of failure.
If that figure overstates the exchange, Ukrainian officials nonetheless have persuaded their partners that they are pursuing a methodical and effective battle plan to minimize their own casualties."It takes time, at the moment, it takes time," a senior European official told the Washington Examiner."They are doing the counteroffensive at the moment with the [casualty] ratio [you would expect] if they would defend. So it takes time.
Biden authorized the transfer of the bomblets, known as DPICMs in military jargon, for the stated purpose of ensuring that Ukrainian forces have enough artillery ammunition to continue their probe for a weak point in Russia’s fortifications.
“This is a war relating to munitions. And they’re running out of that ammunition, and we’re low on it,” Biden told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. “But the main thing is they either have the weapons to stop the Russians now — keep them from stopping the Ukrainian offensive through these areas — or they don’t. And I think they needed them.”
That treaty has been signed by neither the United States nor Ukraine, which hailed the transfer as a valuable new asset for the destruction of occupying Russian forces.
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