According to the Ukrainian president, only 30 percent of the grenades promised by the EU have arrived.
According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine has so far received less than a third of the millions of artillery shells promised by the EU. “Of the one million bombs that the European Union promised us, not 50 percent arrived, but unfortunately only 30 percent,” Zelenskiy said in Kiev on Monday.
The EU promised last year to deliver one million artillery shells to Kiev by the end of March. However, in January, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell had to admit that member states had only delivered 330,000 rounds of ammunition until then. By the end of March there should be a total of around 500,000 injections.
Two years after the Russian invasion, Kiev is struggling to obtain enough artillery ammunition to defend the front. Ukraine recently called on Brussels to take “urgent measures” to increase deliveries, for example by relaxing regulations. (APA/AFP)