China News Service, December 8. According to a CNN report on the 7th, in recent months, Ukrainian officials and lawmakers have urged the Biden administration to provide cluster munitions to the Ukrainian military.

These weapons are banned by more than 100 countries.

  Senior Biden administration officials have been working on the request for months without outright rejecting it, the sources said.

  According to reports, cluster munitions are considered to be imprecise in design, and the munitions tend to disperse over a large area.

These bombs may not explode when they hit the ground and, similar to landmines, may pose long-term risks to people.

  Senior U.S. officials have publicly said they plan to give Ukraine as much support as possible to give them an upper hand at the negotiating table with Russia.

But Western military equipment is not in unlimited supply, and as stockpiles of warheads dwindle, the Ukrainians have made it clear to the United States that they may use cluster munitions currently stockpiled.

  But the proposal has not yet been fully considered because of legal restrictions in the U.S. Congress on the transfer of cluster munitions, the sources said.

President Biden could overturn that legal limit, but the U.S. government has indicated to Ukraine that this is unlikely in the short term.

  "Ukraine's progress in the current and upcoming phase in no way depends on the acquisition of the munitions described above," the congressional aide said.