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NATO has signed a contract worth 1.1 billion euros for 155 millimeter artillery ammunition, the alliance said on Tuesday.
Some of them will be sent to Ukraine, after complaints from this country that the lack of ammunition is hindering efforts to defend against the Russian invasion.
"The war in Ukraine has become a battle of ammunition", said the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Soltenberg, after the contract signing ceremony at the headquarters of the alliance in Brussels.
NATO has signed the agreement on behalf of many allies who will either send the ammunition to Ukraine or store it in their military warehouses.
Buying ammunition in bulk guarantees them lower prices.
NATO countries are expected to receive about 220,000 pieces of artillery ammunition, and the first shipments are expected to be released by the end of 2025, a NATO official told the Reuters news agency.
They will be produced by the French company Nexet and the German company Junghans.
The war in Ukraine started on February 24, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the war a "special military operation" to demilitarize Ukraine.
The West has responded to Russia, hitting the economy of this country with harsh sanctions.
As a result of the war, thousands of people have died and millions more have been displaced from their homes.
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