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The Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov has said he will share a report with the United States about the use of US supplied cluster munitions in Ukraine this week.

The minister, speaking to CNN’s Alex Marquardt in Kyiv over the weekend, said he is awaiting the report which he will then pass on to the Pentagon “probably Monday or Tuesday,” meaning July 24 or 25.

Reznikov, speaking exclusively to CNN added, “we'll report about the consequences of this using [cluster munitions] so I think that next week I would have first report and I will share with my partners in Pentagon this reports. I hope that they will be more efficient than normal ammunition." 

On Thursday the White House’s John Kirby said that Ukrainian forces are using US-provided cluster munitions against Russia “appropriately” and “effectively” in combat.”

“They are using them appropriately. They’re using them effectively and they are actually having an impact on Russia’s defensive formations and Russia’s defensive maneuvering,” Kirby told reporters. 

Reznikov wouldn’t offer detail before the report comes but said he expects them to be most effective "especially against the artillery systems, especially during the counter battery fighting and also they will be efficient against the armored personnel carriers, for the infantry fighting vehicles, they will also be good against their infantry in the fields."

The sharing of the report is part of the deal with the Pentagon to obtain the cluster munitions, called DPICMS, Reznikov said. 

The US has said the decision to provide Ukraine with DPICMs is due to a low supply of the standard unitary 155mm artillery round. The supply of clusters is “temporary,” according to US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

CNN was first to report that the US clusters had arrived in Ukraine.

Why is it controversial? Cluster munitions scatter “bomblets” across large areas, which would allow Ukrainian forces to target larger concentrations of Russian forces and equipment with fewer rounds of ammunition.

But the bomblets can also fail to explode on impact, and can pose a long-term risk to anyone who encounters them, similar to landmines.

The UK, France, Germany and other key US allies have outlawed the munitions under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, but the US and Ukraine are not signatories to the ban.