EU To Produce Up To 2 Million Shells For Ukraine Annually

Details have become known.

The European Union will be able to produce up to 2 million artillery ammunition for Ukraine annually from 2025.

This was announced by European Commissioner for Finance Johannes Hahn in an interview with Augsburger Allgemeine.

According to him, by March (when the EU promised to transfer a million shells to Ukraine), European countries will be able to transfer up to half a million ammunition.

“We will already be able to deliver 500,200 artillery shells by the target date — March,” the European Commissioner said.

At the same time, Hahn emphasized that the EU’s production capacity is expanding, so next year it will be able to produce up to 2 million shells.

“By the end of the year, we will have such a large production capacity that we will be able to produce two million artillery shells from next year,” he added.

The European Commissioner admitted that the EU was unable to fulfill its promise of a million artillery ammunition for Ukraine due to production problems.

“Ammunition has always been produced only in accordance with demand. That's why we cut a lot of production capacity in the past, and now we have to increase it again,” Hahn said.