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NATO used up most of its military inventories — former senior NATO official

The alliance is now working to persuade defense contractors to ramp up their production, he said, adding that "it's not going to be easy"

LONDON, February 14. /TASS/. NATO member countries have "largely used up the available stocks" to provide assistance to Ukraine and must address the issue of restocking, former NATO deputy assistance secretary general Jamie Shea told Sky News on Tuesday.

The alliance is now working to persuade defense contractors to ramp up their production, he said, adding that "it's not going to be easy."

"The secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, has just been in South Korea and Japan, asking them to supply more," he said. "While we get production ramped up, if we can persuade some of these other sort of pro-Western countries beyond NATO to provide these type of munitions, that should help to fill the gap in the meantime.".