The EU fails again and sends only 300 thousand bullets to Kiev. North Korea sends 350 thousand to Moscow
The European Union has delivered only a third of the million artillery shells it promised to Ukraine, while the bloc's plan to increase ammunition production is lagging behind.
Brussels has supplied Kiev with around 300,000 155mm projectiles since it signed off on the plan to bolster its dwindling stockpile earlier this year, Bloomberg reports. ABritish report speaks of 350,000 bullets sent by Kim Jong-un to Russia in a few weeks.
The plan called for member states to be encouraged to draw on existing stocks before increasing industrial capacity and to band together to sign joint orders large enough to convince manufacturers to increase production. The shipments were to be made over 12 months, with the final casing due to be delivered to the Ukrainians in March next year.
But after more than six months, the initiative has reached about 30% of its overall goal.
Based on current progress and the number of contracts signed so far, the initiative is now at risk of falling short of the promised quantity of projectiles, Bloomberg reported. The report comes amid growing fears that the war between Israel and Hamas could divert military aid and attention away from the war in Ukraine.
The Pentagon is planning to ship to Israel tens of thousands of artillery shells that were destined for Ukraine following the Hamas attack on October 7, US news agency Axios reported. At the same time, the United States encouraged Europe to increase production of 155 mm projectiles to help Kiev. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will once again urge European leaders to firmly support his country in a video address to a summit in Brussels on Thursday. Frankly, he would have a better chance of getting the minutes by writing to Santa.
Let's kill Ukraine… by smothering it with words
Obviously the political blah blah at European level is reaching sidereal levels. Arriving at the summit, Charles Michel, President of the European Council, said: “ It is crucial for us to make it clear that we support Ukraine for as long as it takes.
“We will discuss how to develop more support .”
The EU hopes to commit another 500 million euros to finance arms supplies to Kiev by member states. Crumbs that last for a week on the Ukrainian front, but which allow the EU to fill its mouth with empty useless words.
The organizational failure of EU initiatives; which were financed with a specific measure discussed for days and days, it is clear: in 8 months the EU sent 300 thousand 155 mm projectiles, in two weeks North Korea sent 350 thousand. The organizational model of the Commission is pure, total, failure, evident to anyone who does not smoke the opium of the words of the commission officials. Ambition doesn't make bullets.
There will also be discussion of an additional long-term support of 20 billion euros for the Ukrainian armed forces, which is blocked by a number of opponents, so these billions will arrive in the next few months, in the next few years, practically never.
To give an idea of the quality of their discussions in the Commission, French officials argued that support must be conditional on the delivery of only EU-produced weapons to Ukraine, while Eastern and Baltic leaders said that excluding US and British weapons would slow deliveries. In the meantime, neither one nor the other is delivered.
Be careful that Orban has no weight in all this, and Roberto Fico, the new leader of Slovakia who does not want to send weapons to Ukraine, still has no weight. On paper, soon only on that, if deindustrialization continues, the EU could send millions of bullets to Kiev, but the EU cannot coordinate a dinner, let alone a relatively complex process such as the production of ammunition. If it weren't for NATO, Putin could easily drink a coffee in front of Barlaymont Palace tomorrow. The only thing that would slow him down would be the speed limit of 30 per hour in Brussels.
And Parliament wants to delegate more powers to an agency that is unable to carry out the simplest functions.
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