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Talk of the US Sending "Cluster Munitions" to Ukraine is a Result of Dwindling 155mm Artillery Shells, Wall Street Journal

A WSJ article reveals that recent talk of the US sending "cluster munitions" to Ukraine centers on what are actually 155mm artillery shells with cluster munitions.

This is not to provide Ukraine with some sort of new capability but because of the critical shortage of conventional artillery shells Ukraine is facing and the collective West's inability to meet that demand.

In other words, the 155mm cluster munitions is all that's left laying around.

Ukraine was provided with 1 or perhaps 2 months of artillery ammunition for the intense rates of fire required for Ukraine's ongoing offensive now at the 1 month mark.

The clock is ticking in more ways than one, and Ukraine's dwindling artillery shell supply is not insignificant among them.

Even with a major breakthrough, if Ukraine runs out of artillery ammunition, it will be unable to fully exploit or expand it.