Germany will contribute US$500 million to a NATO initiative to provide Ukraine with important American-made weapons.
Supply: NATO's press service, as reported by European Pravda
Particulars: Germany introduced on Wednesday 13 August that it’ll contribute US$500 million to NATO's Prioritised Ukraine Necessities Listing (PURL) initiative to make sure the continued provide of US-made weapons to Ukraine.
NATO Secretary Normal Mark Rutte welcomed the announcement and recalled that Germany is at present the main European nation when it comes to navy help to Ukraine.
The announcement comes throughout Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s go to to Berlin and high-level talks between European and US leaders forward of the upcoming assembly between US President Donald Trump and Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
Background:
- The US and NATO have launched a brand new mechanism for supplying American weapons to Ukraine – the Precedence Ukraine Necessities Listing (PURL) – which shall be funded by contributions from different Alliance members.
- The Netherlands has ready a US$500 million help package deal for Ukraine below the PURL, which consists of parts and missiles for a Patriot air defence system.
- Sweden, Norway and Denmark will collectively allocate about US$500 million.
- Latvia has introduced that it’ll contribute at the least US$2 million, however the remaining determine remains to be being agreed upon.
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