Romania will host an ammunition factory that will produce shells for Ukraine. Germany will co-finance it

The American publication quotes German and Romanian officials as saying that the project could be made public by the end of this month. American journalists did not give details about the location of the factory and its owner.

The decision comes amid the ammunition and weapons crisis in Europe. The old container, home to some of the world’s biggest arms manufacturers, is struggling to produce enough ammunition for Ukraine and Europe itself, jeopardizing NATO’s defense capability and support for Kiev, officials and industry leaders said. by the Wall Street Journal.

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Lack of manufacturing capacity, lack of skilled workers, supply chain bottlenecks, high financing costs and even environmental regulations are holding back efforts to increase production.

Ukraine’s military fate depends on European countries such as Germany, which have let their defense industry atrophy in peacetime and are scrambling to catch up while focusing on securing energy supplies, writes The Wall Street Journal.

Ukraine’s battle against the Russian invasion is consuming ammunition at rates not seen since World War II. Kiev’s forces fired about 6,000 artillery shells a day and are now out of anti-aircraft missiles amid an unrelenting Russian airstrike, according to experts and intelligence officials.

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Ukraine uses up to 40,000 NATO-caliber 155mm artillery shells each month, while Europe’s entire annual production of such shells is about 300,000, according to Michal Strnad, owner of Czechoslovak Group AS, a Czech company that produces about 30% of European production of such munitions.