{"id":289043,"date":"2024-01-03T07:08:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T06:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/?p=289043"},"modified":"2024-01-09T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T14:22:47","slug":"borrell-continue-with-ammunition-supply-to-ukraine-breakthrough-expected-in-the-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/01\/03\/borrell-continue-with-ammunition-supply-to-ukraine-breakthrough-expected-in-the-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Borrell: &#8220;Continue with ammunition supply to Ukraine.&#8221; Breakthrough expected in the spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; <strong>Move forward with ammunition supplies to Ukraine<\/strong>. The European Union does not intend to abandon its ally and partner in the conflict with Russia. The plan to ramp up production capacity and supplies is not only not called into question but should begin to produce its <strong>effects by the spring of this year<\/strong>. That is the date\u00a0EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, <strong>Josep Borrell<\/strong>, provided in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/E-9-2023-003221-ASW_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">response\u00a0to a parliamentary question<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are\u00a0<strong> three tracks<\/strong>\u00a0to ramp up the defense industrial production: <span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">immediate delivery from stockpiles or re-prioritization of orders, joint procurement of 155 mm caliber ammunition, and increasing European industrial capacity. Regarding the first two branches of the\u00a0agenda, Borrell says, &#8220;<strong>the delivery of 1 million artillery rounds of ammunition to Ukraine continues to be an important policy goal<\/strong>,&#8221; even in light of the failed promise to get them to Kyiv and its armed forces by the end of 2023. Now they are counting on getting them there <strong>&#8220;by March 2024,&#8221; <\/strong>after having already delivered, Borrell points out, &#8220;more than 300 thousand ground-to-ground rounds of ammunition and 3,200 missiles since February 2023.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Also on the 155-caliber bullet front, the time target is the change of season. &#8220;European production capacity is already estimated to have increased by 20-30 percent since February 2023 and is expected to\u00a0<strong>reach a capacity of 1 million per year in the spring of 2024. &#8220;<\/strong>The European production capacity is expected to increase by 20-30 percent by February 2023. A development that ties in with joint purchases to supply Ukraine. According to current estimates, &#8220;around 180 thousand shells are already on order for 2023-2024. More orders are expected in the coming months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"OvtS8d\">In addition, the EU is ready to extend its commitment to other areas, always in defense and support for Ukraine. In his response to questions from the People&#8217;s Group (EPP), Borrell points out that among member states, &#8220;discussions are\u00a0<strong>currently ongoing on future EU&#8217;s security commitments to Ukraine and how to ensure sustainable and predictable military support to Ukraine<\/strong>.&#8221; A message to Moscow. The EU will not relent.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy sees March delivery of one million artillery rounds and increased production of 155-caliber rounds. &#8220;Discussions underway for predictable military support&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":237286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[25746,26208,25743,25744,25792,25789],"class_list":["post-289043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-ammunitions","tag-defense-en","tag-industry-en","tag-josep-borrell-en","tag-ukrainian-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289043"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289674,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289043\/revisions\/289674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}