German Chancellor Olaf Scholz deemed Thursday, March 16 "
particularly important " to "
quickly
" provide
Ukraine with the ammunition it needs to repel the Russian invasion.
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“
With our European partners, we will together decide on new measures to ensure a better and continuous supply
” of ammunition, at the European summit next week, he declared during a speech before the deputies of the Bundestag.
And Germany "
is ready to open (its) supply projects to other member states
" of the EU, he added.
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"Trench warfare"
The leading European economy will "
continue its political, financial, humanitarian and military support for Ukraine for as long as necessary
", he also reaffirmed.
kyiv has for weeks been calling for more ammunition to defend against Russian troops as the war bogs down in the east of the country in Bakhmout, the scene of intense fighting.
The Ukrainian army continues to warn in particular about its lack of 155 mm shells for the guns it uses to repel the invader.
European Commissioner for Industry Thierry Breton recently declared that Europe would make sure to increase its production of ammunition for Ukraine, manufactured by “
fifteen industrialists from eleven countries of the Union
”.
"
We have to move very quickly, the war in Ukraine, wanted by Vladimir Putin, tragic, now translates into trench warfare, face-to-face, and it's obviously who sends the most ammunition, one side or the other,
” he said on RMC radio on Monday.
