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European Union states agreed in March to a $2.1 billion plan that would deliver a million rounds of 155-millimeter ammunition to Ukraine within a year. Now, at a critical moment in the war and with Ukraine running short of artillery shells to drive its counteroffensive, experts say Europe may not be able to ramp up production fast enough to achieve the million-shell goal. | European Union states agreed in March to a $2.1 billion plan that would deliver a million rounds of 155-millimeter ammunition to Ukraine within a year. Now, at a critical moment in the war and with Ukraine running short of artillery shells to drive its counteroffensive, experts say Europe may not be able to ramp up production fast enough to achieve the million-shell goal. |
Governments across Europe have become more aggressive about assessing and replenishing ammunition needs since the announcement last year, not just for Ukraine, but also for their own military stockpiles. Manufacturers are building rounds even before being fully paid, and E.U. officials have fast-tracked contracts with producers to supply and reimburse states that procure artillery ammunition. | Governments across Europe have become more aggressive about assessing and replenishing ammunition needs since the announcement last year, not just for Ukraine, but also for their own military stockpiles. Manufacturers are building rounds even before being fully paid, and E.U. officials have fast-tracked contracts with producers to supply and reimburse states that procure artillery ammunition. |
But for all of the efforts to increase supplies, weapons makers are running into a familiar problem: After atrophying badly in the 30 years since the end of the Cold War, they have too few resources and too many supply chain bottlenecks to deliver the one million rounds by the deadline. | But for all of the efforts to increase supplies, weapons makers are running into a familiar problem: After atrophying badly in the 30 years since the end of the Cold War, they have too few resources and too many supply chain bottlenecks to deliver the one million rounds by the deadline. |
Details: The most recent available numbers showed that E.U. states and Norway sent Ukraine at least 223,800 artillery shells from February to May — about one-quarter of the goal. But that was the relatively easy part, as most of the munitions came from military stockpiles. Now those stocks have run too low for most militaries to give more, experts said. | Details: The most recent available numbers showed that E.U. states and Norway sent Ukraine at least 223,800 artillery shells from February to May — about one-quarter of the goal. But that was the relatively easy part, as most of the munitions came from military stockpiles. Now those stocks have run too low for most militaries to give more, experts said. |
Other news from the war: | |
Ukraine increased its use of a new shipping route that has allowed it to begin reviving grain exports and circumvent a de facto Russian blockade of its Black Sea ports. | |
Russian-installed authorities in occupied Crimea said Ukrainian forces targeted the peninsula with another air attack on Saturday, the second in two days. | |
A U.S. Army hospital in Germany has quietly started admitting Ukrainian Army soldiers who were wounded in combat, most of them American volunteers. |