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The European Union agreed on the purchase of a million ammunition for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, their orders are still being discussed. The main task is to pay the funds to those countries that have these shells and are ready to give Ukraine for a certain financial compensation. Another billion, out of the allocated two, the European Union plans to invest in the manufacture of ammunition. Ivan Tymochko, Chairman of the Council of Reserves of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said this live on the FREEDOM TV channel.
He recalled that for 2023, the EU countries included in their budgets an increase in spending on the purchase and manufacture of weapons.
“Each state did it individually, but it built its own program of assistance to Ukraine. But now everyone has begun to understand that each country, with its own peculiarities, is unlikely to be able to work individually. In addition, the European Union, if you look at it by and large, is more than 400 million people, with their own preferences, opinions, and this must be taken into account, ”Tymochko said.
In addition, the Russian military market has lost its position in the global arms market, the military said. And now there is a question of filling this niche.
“And if we take into account that Russia mainly uses the 152 caliber, and the NATO countries the 155 caliber and the states that refuse to purchase weapons of the 152 caliber from the Russian Federation, of course, will be obliged to switch to the caliber, which will be much larger , which will be much easier to buy, which is more efficient,” Tymochko added.
The 2 billion euros allocated to the European Peace Fund will be used both for the purchase of shells and for their manufacture, which is also important for Ukraine, the expert says.
“Their first task is to pay the funds to those countries that have these shells and are ready to give them to Ukraine, but want some financial compensation for this. This mainly concerns European arms manufacturers, because they are not inherently integrated into the state system of industry. There, I mainly operate private enterprises, with which the state concludes contracts and buys weapons from them. And the second point is also very important for us, because they are trying to invest the second billion in production. Taking into account all the costs for them in order to reduce the cost. So, the ammunition that will enter under this program will be cheaper automatically. They will be competitive, and this automatically makes it possible to displace the Russian weapons component,” Tymochko emphasized.
On the other hand, the guest of the broadcast says, the world receives a competitive projectile, which in the future will occupy a niche in the world market.
“And this is very important, because it will lead, in turn, to the rapid obsolescence of Russian weapons,” the military said.
This aspect needs to be considered and studied very seriously and carefully, Timochko says, because for the first time such a world economic enclave as the European Union is making changes in its doctrine of functioning as such from political-economic to military.
This absolutely changes the entire world politics that has been so far.
“In fact, this is a “golden billion” for the development of world weapons production. War is also politics. And it is important that the states of the European Union, which previously worked for liberalization, for ensuring the maximum benefits of their citizens, have now completely changed their doctrine, their vision in just a year and have begun to seriously prepare for war, increasing their market,” Tymochko summed up.
Earlier, EU representatives reached an agreement on the transfer of shells to Ukraine from warehouses, but their orders are still being discussed. In addition, questions are being decided with whom contracts for the production of ammunition will be concluded – only with EU companies or with external manufacturers as well. France supports the first option, along with Greece and Cyprus, who do not want the money to go to Turkey, for example.
