In the coming weeks, the EU states will step up the deliveries of heavy weapons and ammunition to Ukraine promised under a common EU flag. To defend once morest Russian attacks on cities in the east of the country, the government in Kiev needs two things at the moment: artillery shells with a caliber of 155 millimeters, as Foreign Affairs Representative Josep Borrell emphasized at the defense ministers’ meeting in Stockholm on Wednesday. And – just as important – missile defense systems.
