German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has warned that an EU pledge to provide Ukraine with a million artillery shells by March 2024 will not be met.
“It is safe to assume the one million rounds will not be reached,” he told reporters ahead of an EU defence ministers’ meeting in Brussels.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said one of the reasons this year’s highly anticipated summer counter-offensive did not start earlier was the lack of weapons and materiel.
Twenty-five of the EU’s 27 members, along with Norway, signed up to a fast-track deal to hand Ukraine more ammunition through the European Defence Agency as a show of support for Kyiv and a signal to the arms industry.
But Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said other Western allies including the UK and US were stepping up production and he was encouraged that Germany and other EU countries were improving too.
President Zelensky warned on Tuesday that Russia was intensifying its attacks on the front line, around the eastern cities of Donetsk, Kupyansk and Avdiivka.
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German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has warned that an EU pledge to provide Ukraine with a million artillery shells by March 2024 will not be met.
“It is safe to assume the one million rounds will not be reached,” he told reporters ahead of an EU defence ministers’ meeting in Brussels.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said one of the reasons this year’s highly anticipated summer counter-offensive did not start earlier was the lack of weapons and materiel.
Twenty-five of the EU’s 27 members, along with Norway, signed up to a fast-track deal to hand Ukraine more ammunition through the European Defence Agency as a show of support for Kyiv and a signal to the arms industry.
But Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said other Western allies including the UK and US were stepping up production and he was encouraged that Germany and other EU countries were improving too.
President Zelensky warned on Tuesday that Russia was intensifying its attacks on the front line, around the eastern cities of Donetsk, Kupyansk and Avdiivka.
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