The Munich Security Conference closed Feb. 19 on the note of panic delivered by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. During his speech, he announced that there would be an extraordinary meeting of EU Defense Ministers on March 7-8 to coordinate additional weapons and ammunition supplies to Ukraine. “We have to increase and accelerate our military support to Ukraine,” he said. “The first and most urgent thing that a geopolitical Europe has to do is to arm Ukraine. Here we said, as all European leaders said here, yesterday, that Russia cannot win this war, that Ukraine has to prevail. Then let’s go from words to facts and accelerate our military support to Ukraine, because Ukraine is in a critical situation from the point of view of available ammunition.”
Today, as he arrived in Brussels for a meeting of EU Foreign Ministers, Borrell called arming Ukraine “the most urgent issue,” adding that “if we fail on that, the result of the war is in danger.” He noted that Russian forces fire about 50,000 rounds a day. “Ukraine needs to be at the same level of capacity. They have artillery, but they lack ammunition,” he said.
