Production of arms and ammunition for Ukraine delayed due to EU shortage of explosives.
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The Financial Times reported this, citing sources.
“Due to limited stocks of gunpowder, plastic explosives and TNT, the industry is unable to meet EU requests for Ukraine on short notice,” the paper said.
It noted that the Ukrainian crisis had exposed Europe’s “insufficient” stockpiles of weapons, as well as the weak production capacity of European companies.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg earlier said that the West had so far failed to ensure the stability of supplies of artillery ammunition to Ukraine.
He admitted that at this stage Western supplies of ammunition to Ukraine “are not sustainable” because their “consumption is much higher” than the rate of production in the alliance member states.
The Bloomberg news agency quoted its sources as saying that the EU authorities do not yet know how much ammunition they will be able to transfer to the Ukrainian army.
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