The European Commissioner for Finance Johannes Gan has announced that since 2025 the European Union will increase the production of artillery shells for Ukraine to two million annually.
According to him, by March 2024, when the EU had to transfer a million shells to Ukraine, "we will be able to supply 500.2 thousand artillery ammunition."
"By the end of this year, we will have such significant production opportunities that we will be able to produce two million artillery shells every year from next year," he added.
Gan acknowledged that the EU was unable to fulfill the promise of supplying a million shells to Ukraine because of production problems. "Ammunition has always been produced in accordance with demand. That is why we have reduced a lot of production facilities in the past, and now we have to grow them again," he explained.
In early January, the European Commission expressed confidence that the EU would be able to produce a million ammunition for Ukraine by spring this year, although the process has been delayed.
At the end of January, the EU Defense Ministers have agreed to fulfill their promise to put a million artillery ammunition, but with delay, at the end of January at the end of January.
