French President Emmanuel Macron will soon announce that Paris will join Prague's initiative to purchase "hundreds of thousands of artillery shells" for the Ukrainian army. ammunition planned to be received from countries outside the European Union.
Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark also joined France in supporting the ammunition purchase plan. The Czech government noted that it had received “preliminary commitments” from Canada and Denmark, as well as from other countries, including Lithuania and Latvia, regarding the purchase of shells. we are talking about 500 thousand artillery shells of 155 mm caliber and 300 thousand shells of 122 mm caliber.