BRUSSELS, November 13. /TASS/. Top EU diplomat Josep Borrel has conceded that the bloc will not be able to meet its pledge to send 1 million artillery rounds and rockets to Ukraine by the end of the year.

He made the statement following a meeting of EU foreign ministers that failed to agree on providing an additional tranche of military assistance to Ukraine worth 500 million euros from the European Peace Facility.

"We were trying to get this target through three lines: one in the short term, asking our armies to take their existing stocks to provide for the existing stock what they have. This is finished, this work line is finished. And it has provided something more than 300,000 shots. This is the contribution of the existing stocks. Now we are on the production line. And around several contracts, which has been passed on the production line, it started working. The third line is to increase the capacity, but to increase the capacity is obviously something in the medium terms, not for the end of the year, not even for the next month or the next year. So, we continue having this target and maybe we will not reach it by the end of the year, but it will depend on how quickly the contract will be implemented and how quickly the factories will produce," he said.