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Estonia is set to carry on building a defence line on the border with Russia, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's claims that he is not going to attack Poland or the Baltic states. Source: Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur in an interview with dpa, as reported by European Pravda, citing Tagesschau Details: Pevkur warned against believing Putin's reassuring claims, recalling that the Russian president categorically denied such plans a few days before invading Ukraine.
Ukraine has told its allies that it is facing a "critical" shortage of artillery shells as Russia uses three times as many munitions on the front line every day. Source: Bloomberg, with reference to a letter from Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umierov to his European Union counterparts Details: Bloomberg noted that Umierov had described in the letter the huge numerical advantage of the Russians faced by Ukrainian troops when repelling new Russian attacks.
The European Union will be able to supply Ukraine with over 500,000 artillery shells by March, rather than the promised million. Source: Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, after a meeting of defence ministers of EU states, as reported by European Pravda Quote: "Since last March until now, until the beginning of this year, we have already delivered 330,000 ammunition rounds.