EU to deliver 500,000 out of promised 1 million shells to Ukraine by year’s end — report

The European Union will transfer 500,000 artillery shells to Ukraine by the end of 2023, out of the promised one million Brussels has pledged to deliver over the course of the year, Interfax Ukraine reported on Dec. 13, citing an unnamed senior European official.

“We plan to deliver, I think, 500,000 of the one million by the end of this year,” the source said.

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“I believe we will reach a million next year. But indeed, we are running a bit behind.”

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He emphasized that the EU is also working with other partners, which is not always publicly known, “to obtain some munitions from other countries that have them.”

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During a press conference on Nov. 13, Josep Borrell, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, announced that EU countries might not be able to deliver one million artillery shells to Ukraine by the end of 2023 as previously planned.

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