EU countries now supply over 50% of Ukraine's ammunition needs – Kallas
Photo: EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas (Getty Images)
European countries are already providing more than half of Ukraine's ammunition needs, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently estimated at 2 million rounds, reports Reuters, citing EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas.
“These things are moving very well (...) we need to get the help to Ukraine as fast as possible. President Zelenskyy has said that they need five billion to have at least two million rounds,” Kallas said before the EU defense ministers' summit in Warsaw.
According to her, the EU already has various proposals and “different countries are coming with their input to this, so we have already over 50% of what is needed.”
Earlier, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that NATO allies had pledged more than 20 billion euros in military support for Ukraine in the first three months of the year.
The foreign ministers of the alliance will meet in Brussels on April 3 and 4 to discuss further support for Ukraine in the face of Russia's three-year invasion.
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth will not attend a meeting of representatives of 50 countries to coordinate military support for Ukraine in the Ramstein format, scheduled for April 11 in Brussels. It will be the first time the coalition will meet without the US Secretary of Defense.
According to the Kiel Institute, as of February, Europe as a whole has clearly outpaced the United States in terms of aid to Ukraine, with €70 billion in financial and humanitarian aid and €62 billion in military aid. The United States has allocated €64 billion in military aid and €50 billion in financial and humanitarian aid.
