EU’s Ammunition Goal for Kyiv Never Realistic, Germany Says
- Defense minister concedes 1 million March target won’t be met
- Pistorius speaks ahead of talks with counterparts in Brussels
155mm artillery shell manufacturing in France.
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German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius conceded that the European Union won’t meet a pledge to send Ukraine 1 million artillery shells by the end of March and questioned whether the goal the bloc set itself to help Kyiv beat back Russia’s invasion was always too ambitious.
“The one million will not be reached, one must assume that,” Pistorius told reporters Tuesday ahead of talks with EU counterparts in Brussels. “It’s the right question if the one million was ever realistic.”