NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned Monday of the need for the Western defense industry to increase production capacity to keep up with the war. Stoltenberg added that the war in Ukraine “is depleting the reserves of the allies.”
Jens Stoltenberg’s alert comes on the eve of a meeting of defense ministers of the Atlantic Alliance, at the institution’s headquarters in Brussels. Stoltenberg defended the reinforcement of production to compensate for the increasingly scarce stock.
“The war in the Ukraine is consuming a huge amount of ammunition and depleting allied reserves. The current rate of spending on ammunition in Ukraine is many times higher than our current production capacity,” warned the NATO Secretary General, admitting that deliveries are taking longer and longer.
“The waiting time for large-calibre ammunition has gone from 12 to 28 months,” that is, “orders placed today will only be delivered in two and a half years,” Stoltenberg revealed, defending the need to “increase the production and invest in production. ability”.
At this point, the NATO Secretary General calls on the allies to speed up deliveries to Ukraine “of major resources, such as ammunition, fuel and spare parts, which must reach Ukraine before Russia has a chance to take initiative on the battlefield.
“Speed will save lives,” says Jens Stoltenberg, without ruling out the delivery of Western planes to Ukraine, although he believes that priorities must be respected.
“Whatever the opinion of [a entrega de] planes, it will take time,” said Stoltenberg, considering that “what is needed now is urgent support for Ukraine.”
“Therefore, my main priority is to ensure that allied commitments, such as combat vehicles, weaponry, battle tanks, are delivered as quickly as possible, because every day counts,” he concluded.
Source: TSF
