(ANSA-AFP) - BRUSSELS, NOV 14 - Germany's defence minister
said on Tuesday the EU will not hit a one-year target of sending
a million artillery shells to Ukraine, as the bloc struggles to
secure arms supplies for Kyiv. The European Union pledged last
year to deliver the desperately needed ammunition to Ukraine by
March 2024 to help Kyiv battle against Russia's invading forces.
So far, EU nations have only managed to provide 300,000 rounds
from their existing stocks. Countries are now placing joint
orders for 155-millimetre shells but there are doubts over the
capacity of defence companies to churn out enough in time.
"Unfortunately, the cautionary voices are now right," German
Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said at a meeting with his EU
counterparts in Brussels. (ANSA-AFP).
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