Overview
- NATO said Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden are jointly financing about $500 million in US-made weapons and ammunition for Ukraine under the PURL mechanism.
- Germany announced it will contribute at least €150 million to a new PURL package following a meeting in Berlin with European counterparts.
- PURL enables allies to buy US-produced arms and then transfer them to Kyiv, a cost-sharing approach developed in response to Washington’s push for greater allied financing.
- NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said the package delivers urgently needed materiel before winter and indicated further deliveries are expected.
- The EU separately announced nearly €6 billion in additional financial aid for Ukraine, with total EU and member-state commitments since the war’s start at roughly €178 billion.