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18-02-2024, 10:28 PM
Pavel: Czechia can deliver 800,000 shells to Ukraine if allied financing secured. Czech President Petr Pavel (L) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet during the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 17, 2024
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Pavel: Czechia can deliver 800,000 shells to Ukraine if allied financing secured
Czech President Petr Pavel (L) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet during the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 17, 2024. (President Petr Pavel/X)BeyondWords
Czechia identified around 800,000 artillery shells abroad that could be sent to Ukraine within weeks if provided funding from other partners, Czech President Petr Pavel said on Feb. 17.
Artillery shells are among the most crucial military supplies for Kyiv, as they are used daily in high numbers on the Ukrainian battlefields.
EU conceded it would be able to deliver only half of the promised 1 million shells by March deadline, defense assistance from U.S., including artillery support, is held up by domestic political disputes, EU's top diplomat, recently said that EU aims to deliver more than 1 million shells to Ukraine by the end of 2024. "We have identified at this point half a million rounds of 155 mm caliber and another 300,000 rounds of 122 mm caliber, which we will be able to deliver within weeks if we quickly find funding for that activity," Pavel said at the Munich Security Conference.
Czech head of state said Prague will turn to partners from U.S., Germany, Sweden, and others who could contribute to this endeavor. Pavel did not specify from which countries the purchases would be sourced.
Bloomberg: Umerov says Ukraine has increasingly ‘critical’ shortage of artillery shells As the EU countries sent all the shells they could from their standing stocks, the next step is to either produce or purchase new ones, both to ship to Ukraine and to refill their own arsenals.
Seeing the EU failing on its promise to Kyiv, Czechia has begun pushing a plan to jointly finance the purchase of 450,000 shells outside the bloc, Politico reported on Feb. 1. Prague reportedly suggested that Europe could turn to arms companies in South Korea, Turkey, or South Africa....
Plans to buy ammunition from outside the bloc continue to face opposition from France, Greece, and Cyprus. While Paris hopes to give a boost to its domestic defense industry, Greece and Cyprus do not wish to buy arms from Turkish producers, given their tense relations with Ankara
https://kyivindependent.com/czechia-can-...ontribute/
NEWS FEED, UKRAINE, CZECHIA, WESTERN AID, ARTILLERY, MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE
Pavel: Czechia can deliver 800,000 shells to Ukraine if allied financing secured
Czech President Petr Pavel (L) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet during the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 17, 2024. (President Petr Pavel/X)BeyondWords
Czechia identified around 800,000 artillery shells abroad that could be sent to Ukraine within weeks if provided funding from other partners, Czech President Petr Pavel said on Feb. 17.
Artillery shells are among the most crucial military supplies for Kyiv, as they are used daily in high numbers on the Ukrainian battlefields.
EU conceded it would be able to deliver only half of the promised 1 million shells by March deadline, defense assistance from U.S., including artillery support, is held up by domestic political disputes, EU's top diplomat, recently said that EU aims to deliver more than 1 million shells to Ukraine by the end of 2024. "We have identified at this point half a million rounds of 155 mm caliber and another 300,000 rounds of 122 mm caliber, which we will be able to deliver within weeks if we quickly find funding for that activity," Pavel said at the Munich Security Conference.
Czech head of state said Prague will turn to partners from U.S., Germany, Sweden, and others who could contribute to this endeavor. Pavel did not specify from which countries the purchases would be sourced.
Bloomberg: Umerov says Ukraine has increasingly ‘critical’ shortage of artillery shells As the EU countries sent all the shells they could from their standing stocks, the next step is to either produce or purchase new ones, both to ship to Ukraine and to refill their own arsenals.
Seeing the EU failing on its promise to Kyiv, Czechia has begun pushing a plan to jointly finance the purchase of 450,000 shells outside the bloc, Politico reported on Feb. 1. Prague reportedly suggested that Europe could turn to arms companies in South Korea, Turkey, or South Africa....
Plans to buy ammunition from outside the bloc continue to face opposition from France, Greece, and Cyprus. While Paris hopes to give a boost to its domestic defense industry, Greece and Cyprus do not wish to buy arms from Turkish producers, given their tense relations with Ankara
https://kyivindependent.com/czechia-can-...ontribute/
