EU seeks deal on artillery shells for Ukraine

(Iryna Rybakova/AP)

European Union ministers are meeting on Monday to try to finalise a plan to supply Ukraine with much-needed artillery shells, replenish its own national stocks and ramp up Europe’s defence industry, as Russia continues to focus its attacks on the industrial east of the war-ravaged country.

The 27-nation bloc’s foreign and defence ministers will discuss the plan at a joint session in Brussels.