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NATO signs key artillery ammunition contract to replenish allied supplies and help Ukraine:

NATO signed on Tuesday a $1.2-billion contract to make tens of thousands of artillery rounds to replenish the dwindling stocks of its member countries as they supply ammunition to Ukraine to help it defeat Russia’s invasion.

The contract will allow for the purchase of 220,000 rounds of 155-millimeter ammunition, the most widely sought after artillery shell, according to NATO’s support and procurement agency. It will allow allies to backfill their arsenals and to provide Ukraine with more ammunition.

“This is important to defend our own territory, to build up our own stocks, but also to continue to support Ukraine,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters.

“We cannot allow President (Vladimir) Putin to win in Ukraine,” he added. “That would be a tragedy for the Ukrainians and dangerous for all of us.”

Ukraine was firing around 4,000 to 7,000 artillery shells each day last summer, while Russia was launching more than 20,000 shells daily in its neighbor’s territory, according to European Union estimates. --->READ MORE HERE

War update: Ukraine’s Air Force hits eight Russian clusters in past day:

The Ukrainian Air Force targeted eight Russian manpower and equipment clusters on Monday.

That’s according to a morning update by the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Ukrinform reports.

"In the past 24 hours, 68 combat clashes took place. In total, the enemy launched three missile strikes and 65 airstrikes, as well as 56 rocket salvos, on the positions of our troops and at populated areas. As a result of Russian terrorist attacks, unfortunately, there are casualties among the civilian population. Residential buildings and other civil infrastructure sustained damage," the report said.

According to the General Staff, in the morning hours, the Russian occupiers attacked the civil infrastructure in Kharkiv and Balaklia, firing off four S300/400 SAMs.

The following areas were subjected to Russian airstrikes: Hraniv, Hryhorivka, and Pishchane of Kharkiv region; Novoyehorivka, Bilohorivka, and Serebryanske Forestry of Luhansk region; Terny, Rozdolivka, Bohdanivka, Khromove, Klishchiivka, Bila Hora, Maiorske, Novobakhmutivka, Avdiivka, Vodiane, Novomykhailivka, and Staromaiorske, Donetsk region; Novodarivka in Zaporizhzhia region; Kachkarivka, Chervonyi Maiak, Zmiivka, and Beryslav of Kherson region.

More than 140 settlements across Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions came under Russian artillery fire.

Volyn and Polissia axes: no significant changes.

Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna axes: the enemy maintains a military presence in the areas bordering Ukraine, engaging in active subversive activities in order to prevent the Ukrainian command from maneuvering its forces. --->READ MORE HERE