Germany eyes producing 250,000 artillery shells for Ukraine

Germany has offered to produce 250,000 155 mm artillery shells for the Ukrainian army, which is a quarter of the total amount of ammunition that the EU intends to produce for Ukraine, FAZ reports.

The proposal to produce such a large number of shells for Ukraine was made during a meeting of directors of armament companies, which took place this week.

The company Rheinmetall, an arms manufacturer from Düsseldorf, will be engaged in the production of shells.

An anonymous representative of Rheinmetall told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the enterprise could currently produce 450,000 artillery shells per year, 350,000 of them at factories in Europe.

As per an anonymous representative, Rheinmetall plans to increase the production of artillery ammunition to about 600,000 per year in the future.

EU's High Representative of the Union of Foreign Affairs, Joseph Borrell, said that the countries of the European Union are providing ammunition at the urgent request of Ukraine, and the volume of supply should increase given the urgency of the issue. The newly approved plan includes sending 1 million artillery shells to Ukraine in 12 months.