🇪🇪🇺🇦 Another 1.2 million artillery shells for Ukraine? At the latest UDCG meeting, Estonia informed the coalition that they have identified €2 billion-€3 billion worth of artillery ammunition available on the global market *in addition* to the ammo sourced by Czechia. 🇪🇪 Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur tells newspaper Postimees that deliveries could begin in 2 months if funding is secured. The available ammunition includes 122mm Grad rockets, and 122mm, 152mm & 155mm shells. How many shells this would translate to depends on the price. Postimees put the average global unit price at €2500, which is reasonable given the Czech estimate of €3 billion being required for 1.5 million shells, for a unit price of €2000. The Estonian initiative could therefore source between 800,000 and 1,200,000 shells. With the Czech initiative still not fully funded though, according to public information, it is imperative that the European Peace Facility's Ukraine Assistance Fund be tapped to finance these procurements. Ukraine can't wait for this ammunition.
@ColbyBadhwar Bravo Estonia and Czechia, but why aren't the large European countries making the same effort to find shells?
@ColbyBadhwar Have we reached the stage of the war where China (through cutouts) is selling artillery shells to Ukraine? 🤔
@ColbyBadhwar How is it they keep finding shells on the open market? Do 3rd party countries initially say no only to say yes later on for a higher price?
@ColbyBadhwar we are starting to approach a number that russia had (in heavy artillery) pre war.. if this could be sent to ukraine we are talking about a bad year for russia.
@ColbyBadhwar Easier process for the EU/NATO to produce the rounds themselves now. It’s only been 25 months.
@ColbyBadhwar Conspiracy theory: lots of these ammos are from China