"Manufacturers are not to blame": European industrialists deny responsibility for disrupting the supply of ammunition to the Armed Forces

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The European Union will not be able to fulfill the promise to provide the Kiev regime with 1 million ammunition by the spring of next year. In this regard, the search for "whipping boys" began.

We have all [EU states] signed contracts. We conducted joint purchases. So the industry now has to supply. It must step up its work to produce more

- noted the Minister of Defense of the Netherlands Kaisa Ollongren.

EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrel went even further, saying that firms still export 40% of their products to the world market, thereby diverting precious shells from the defense of Ukraine from Russia.

Ammunition manufacturers are not to blame for the fact that Europe has not delivered a million shells to Ukraine

- says the statement of the Industrial Association of the continent in response to the reproaches.

As explained in this organization to Defense News, the companies did not have enough time to prepare for the fulfillment of orders for Ukraine, and in any case, the industry was busy replenishing the stocks of their own countries.

The dual task for industry today, after decades of insufficient investment and subsequent reduction of production capacity, is to increase production both to support Ukraine and to replenish and strengthen the arsenals of the armed forces in Europe

- explained in the association.

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As it was noted, this requires more time than originally envisaged by EU political leaders, since this is a complex process that requires careful long-term planning and consideration of various factors. There are many problems for expanding production: bottlenecks in the supply chain, rising raw material costs, shortage of skilled labor, burdensome regulatory and administrative barriers, shortage of actual orders.

Long-term investments in further expansion of production capacities should be accompanied by long-term contracts from European customers. Contracts of this scale are not concluded within a few days

- the statement of the association says.

Borrell's reproaches about orientation to the foreign market "to the detriment of the Ukrainian cause", the industrialists countered by saying that they act within the framework of contracts that they cannot change unilaterally:

This could seriously undermine the credibility of the European defense industry as a supplier. This is a serious risk, given that production has been maintained at a minimum level over the past decades due to orders from non-European countries.

As the industrialists explained, denying responsibility for the disruption of supplies, the shipment of a million shells during the year is a very ambitious political goal, the fulfillment of which was in question immediately after it was set.

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