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2023-03-07T20:49:44.254Z
The EU's defense ministers are gathered in Stockholm to discuss how to get shells to Ukraine. The meeting will be attended by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukraine's Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov. - The Russians see their soldiers as cannon fodder. They use the meat grinder tactic, he tells SVT.
Oleksiy Reznikov describes Bachmut, which was previously home to 70,000 people, as a fort where the Ukrainian troops' task is to reduce the Russians' ability to launch an offensive.
The EU's informal meeting of defense ministers is chaired by Sweden's Minister of Defense Pål Jonsson.
Getting more shells to Ukraine, which is short on ammunition, is one of the items at the top of the agenda.
Source: svt
