EU Seeks to Provide 1 Million Shells to Ukraine Over 12 Months
- EU member states backed ammunition purchase plan on Monday
- Sourcing components for the ammunition remains a question
Ukrainian servicemen fire a M777 howitzer at Russian positions near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, on March 17.
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European Union member states reached an agreement that aims to provide Ukraine with 1 million rounds of artillery ammunition over the next year.
The EU’s top envoys agreed to a plan Monday to back spending €1 billion ($1.1 billion) from its European Peace Facility for the bloc’s countries to jointly buy ammunition, according to people familiar with the matter. They also backed spending another €1 billion from the same fund to reimburse what member states send from their own existing stockpiles of both modern and Soviet-era ammunition to Ukraine.