The weapons use depleted uranium to attack military tanks but have long been opposed by anti-war campaigners who say they create a 'long-term health threat'.
e UK providing the munition to UkraineThe munitions can be fired from US Abrams tanks that Reuters claims, according to a person familiar with the matter, are expected be delivered to Ukraine in the coming weeks.
One of the officials said that the coming aid package will be worth between $240 million and $375 million .The White House did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.It follows an earlier decision by the Biden administration to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine, despite concerns over the dangers such weapons pose to civilians.
The US security assistance to Ukraine since the war began in February 2022 has been more than $43 billion . Australia has spent a total of $790 million supporting Ukraine, including $610 million in military assistance, as of June this year.As mentioned earlier, the Russia-Ukraine war is not the first time these weapons have seen the military front line.
The US used depleted uranium munitions in massive quantities in the 1990 and 2003 during the Gulf Wars and NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia in 1999.
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