Brussels wanted to deliver one million artillery shells to Kiev within a year. Now the EU admits that this will not work - and is postponing the delivery deadline to the end of the year.

Of the promised quantity of one million shots, only a little more than half will probably have been delivered by March, said Josep Borrell. The new goal is now to reach the one million mark at least this year, he said. According to Borrell, member states have pledged to deliver around 630,000 more bullets between March and then.