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Senior EU official says Ukraine artillery pledge won't be met by March

A Ukrainian army artillery brigade fires a German howitzer Panzerhaubitze 2000 near Bakhmut, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Feb 5, 2023. [Reuters]

The European Union will miss its previously stated target of supplying Ukraine with one million artillery shells and missiles by next March.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius made the admission Tuesday before a summit of EU defense ministers in the Belgian capital Brussels.

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