Stoltenberg: NATO allies’ ammunition stocks running dry 

NATO allies need to sign more contracts with defense companies to boost production with ammunition stocks running dry, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview in Oslo after a two-day meeting of the alliance’s foreign ministers, Report informs, citing Bloomberg.

“We need to do more across the whole alliance to ramp up production,” Stoltenberg said. “The envoys discussed Ukraine’s bid to join the bloc and other ways to ensure long-term support for the country as it fends off Russia’s attack.

“What we need is actually contracts being signed because then the industry is ready to invest and ramp up production,” Stoltenberg said. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has invited representatives of the defense industry to join a gathering of defense ministers in Brussels later this month to facilitate contacts.