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European countries have already committed more than 50% of the 5-billion-euro ($5.5 billion) package for 2 million ammunition rounds requested by Ukraine, top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas said on April 3 in comments reported by Reuters.<\/p>\n

Kallas’s statement comes after EU leaders decided at a summit in Brussels<\/a> on March 20 to help cover Ukraine’s ammunition needs through aid packages announced by individual countries over the past month.<\/p>\n

Addressing the summit online, President Volodymyr Zelensky asked for “European support of at least 5 billion euros as soon as possible” for the purchase of 2 million ammunition rounds.<\/p>\n

“These things are moving very well,” Kallas<\/a> said ahead of the EU defense ministers’ summit in Warsaw. “We need to get the help to Ukraine as fast as possible. President Zelensky has said that they need 5 billion (euros) to have at least two million rounds.”<\/p>\n

“I’m glad to see that we already have different proposals or different countries are coming with their input to this, so we have already over 50% of what is needed,” she added.<\/p>\n

Kallas initially proposed a 40-billion-euro ($43 billion) defense initiative for Ukraine, but European leaders have yet to reach an agreement. The sum of 5 billion euros for purchasing 2 million<\/a> large-caliber ammunition rounds is seen as a first step<\/a> that could be achieved before a possible consensus on the more significant tranche.<\/p>\n

EU officials have been discussing ways to move the bigger package forward, including basing contributions on consent to avoid a likely veto by Hungary,<\/a> the bloc’s most Russian-friendly country.<\/p>\n

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