BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany plans to significantly boost purchases of ammunition in 2024, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday, as Western ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSBERLIN - Germany plans to significantly boost purchases of ammunition in 2024, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday, as Western countries are scrambling to replenish stocks depleted by donations to Ukraine.
"We aim to more than triple our spending on ammunition purchases in 2024," he told lawmakers in a speech to parliament, without going into detail. Germany is the second-biggest donor to Ukraine after the U.S. The war in Ukraine has developed into a war of attrition, with both sides firing thousands of artillery shells every day, making them a key element on the battlefield and meaning they now are in very short supply across the West.NATO said in February that it would increase targets for stockpiling ammunition as Kyiv burns through shells much faster than Western countries can produce them and after a year of conflict in Ukraine has left allied stocks badly depleted.
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