NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in an interview with a British newspaper Guard He stated that the consumption of bullets in Ukraine exceeded the production level in Western countries.
“The current level of spending for ammunition is higher than the current level of production,” he said.
As the Secretary-General noted, the United States, Britain, France, Germany and other Western states should be ready to support Kiev for a long time with weapons, ammunition and spare parts, we are talking about industrial capacities to provide further military assistance.
He pointed out that at the moment the conflict is so intense that Ukraine fired between four and seven thousand artillery shells a day.
On March 20, the head of the European Union’s foreign service, Josep Borrell, said that the EU countries’ approved the plan One of the three steps to transfer 1 million shells, of which € 2 billion will be allocated to Ukraine in the next 12 months.
Formerly the concern “Ukroboronprom” reported In connection with the start of production of 125 mm shells for the tank gun, the first batch was delivered for the T-64, T-72 and T-80 tanks.