NATO said on Monday it will increase targets for stockpiling ammunition as Kyiv is burning through shells much faster than Western countries can produce them and after a year of conflict in Ukraine has left allied stocks badly depleted.
"The current rate of Ukraine's ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters ahead of a two-day meeting of the alliance's defense ministers in Brussels.
The West needed to ramp up production as the waiting time for large-caliber ammunition has increased to 28 months from 12 months, Stoltenberg said. "If Europe were to fight Russia, some countries would run out of ammunition in days," a European diplomat told Reuters.
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