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The European Union will not reach its target to deliver 1 million rounds of artillery shells to Ukraine within a year, top EU diplomat Josep Borrell admitted on Wednesday. Defending EU efforts as a “work in progress,” Borrell said that deliveries to Ukraine will now reach 524,000. This amounts to just 52% of the target, Borrell said at a press conference after an informal meeting of EU defence ministers in Brussels. He outlined a new target of more than 1 million shells by the end of 2024, with 630,000 shells under production, according to EU member states data. EU member states had pledged to…

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