Ukraine is burning through shells faster than its allies can make them, officials say. Read more at straitstimes.com.
STOCKHOLM - European Union countries agreed on Wednesday to speed up supplies of artillery rounds and buy more shells to help Ukraine, but still have to work out how to turn these aims into reality.
“There has been a general agreement on this procedure but there are questions pending. Everything has to be discussed in detail,” Mr Borrell said, after a meeting of EU defence ministers in Stockholm also attended by their Ukrainian counterpart, Mr Oleksii Reznikov. Mr Reznikov had urged the ministers in Stockholm to support an Estonian plan for EU countries to club together to buy one million 155-millimetre shells this year at a cost of €14 billion
However, officials said there was still much work to be done to hammer out details such as how the funding would work and who would take the lead in sealing deals with arms firms.
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