Ukraine received less than a third of the million projectiles promised by the EU – Rossiyskaya Gazeta

“So far around 300,000 have been delivered,” he told RIA Novosti. Kuleba linked failure to meet European promises with “tons of technical problems.” He also promised to “raise this issue” at Wednesday’s meeting.

At the same time, at the end of May, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, stated that EU countries supplied 220,000 artillery munitions to Ukraine in 2023, leaving only about 70,000 projectiles for the next six months.

In total, according to Bloomberg, the European industry is prepared to produce around 300,000 155mm shells per year. At the same time, governments do not allocate funds to expand production, at least in the necessary volumes. The defense companies themselves do not want to invest their own money in new plants; The conflict could end before they are even built.

In such conditions, it is necessary to search for “stashes” of weapons throughout the alliance. It was previously known that the United States plans to buy from Greece 50,000 105 mm shells, 20,000 155 mm shells and even 5,000 203 mm shells from the warehouses of the national Armed Forces.