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Zelensky said the EU has only delivered 30 per cent of its pledged shells, underscoring the hapless state of Europe’s military capabilities.

The leaders of Germany and Denmark joined in a ground-breaking ceremony for a new ammunition factory on Monday.

NATO signed for tens of thousands of artillery rounds to replenish the dwindling stocks as members supply ammunition to Ukraine.

North and South Korea exchanged hundreds of rounds of artillery fire on Friday near the Northern Limit Line, the maritime border between the two peninsular powers. 

Ukraine has been using missiles made in North Korea to fire against the Russians, despite their notorious unreliability, a report claimed.

Chinese state media on Tuesday pounced on U.S. shipments of cluster munitions to Ukraine as proof the American-led “rules-based international order” is just a “mafia-style” hypocritical racket. 

Weapons provided to Ukraine from the NATO country of Italy are reportedly not battle ready, according to Kyiv defence sources.

North Korean state media on Friday described dictator Kim Jong-un supervising a live-fire artillery drill that simulated an attack on a South Korean airfield.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Ukraine is using up ammunition far faster than its allies can provide it.

The Russian military on Monday claimed it was able to make advances against Ukrainian forces in the Kherson and Kursk regions.

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has publicly demanded that Ukraine be admitted into NATO and be handed more guns from the West to fight Russia.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian shells pummeled the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Saturday, killing seven people and injuring 58 more in the city that Moscow’s forces were forced to abandon last month.

An apparently significant strike on Russian-controlled Melitopol by U.S.-supplied HIMARS artillery either killed a number of civilians or “hundreds” of Russian soldiers, according to conflicting accounts from Russia and Ukraine. 

Polish Prez Duda took delivery of a first shipment of tanks and howitzers from South Korea, hailing the swift implementation of the deal.

North Korea went on an unexpected rampage Wednesday, launching 23 ballistic missiles and over a hundred artillery shells in the direction of South Korea.

A U.S. intelligence report declassified on Monday said the Russians are buying huge qualities of artillery shells and rockets from North Korea, a sign that heavily-sanctioned Russia is having difficulty obtaining or producing the munitions it needs to continue the invasion of Ukraine.

The Taiwanese military conducted live-fire artillery drills on Tuesday, simulating a stiff defense against the sort of attack China has been simulating with its own live-fire drills ever since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the island last week.

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Moving enemy targets are now more vulnerable to U.S. strikes thanks to the development of a laser-guided artillery round that makes in-flight adjustments. 

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Dmitry Bulgakov said on Tuesday that a string of spectacular explosions at the Kamenka ammunition depot in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region was probably the result of “human error,” but added that “investigative authorities and prosecutors will tell for sure.”

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s bloody efforts to stamp out the remaining rebel enclaves near Damascus resulted in what observers are describing as the wholesale massacre of civilians on Monday and Tuesday, with a bombing campaign that deliberately targeted seven hospitals and killed over a hundred people, including at least 20 children.

Israel Aerospace Industries is to further develop, produce and supply the Israeli Army with course correction artillery fuzes, the company announced on Monday.

Speaking through its state-controlled media, China has warned North Korea not to “cross the point of no return” by conducting another nuclear test. North Korea evidently has no interest in defusing tensions on the peninsula as it conducted a massive live-fire artillery drill on Tuesday – possibly the largest such drill it has ever performed.

Receding waters in the drought-hit Sea of Galilee have uncovered five World War One artillery shells likely dumped by retreating Turkish troops a century ago, Israeli police said on Tuesday.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Artillery Corps is in the process of introducing a new tactical doctrine that combines short bursts of shell fire with guided surface-to-surface missiles.

A newly established artillery brigade recently held a large-scale war drill to prepare for a potential clash with Hamas in Gaza, but the live-fire training involved far more than shells.

According to the Military Times, the U.S. Marines stationed at an artillery base southeast of Mosul are firing “every day” to support Iraqi Army maneuvers.

North Korea has responded to elevated rhetoric from its southern neighbor with the sort of sexist tirade it has been hurling at South Korea’s female president for years, calling Park Geun-hye a “senile granny” and “tailless, old, insane bitch,” as well as a “traitor for all times.”