Rutte reveals how much US will supply Ukraine with weapons under PURL this year
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (Photo: Vitalii Nosach – RBC-Ukraine)
This year, the US will provide Ukraine with its own weapons worth $15 billion, which Europe has already paid for, states NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in an interview with PBS.
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“They're delivering at the tune of a billion euros a month. So that will be about 15 billion again for this year in dollars,” the secretary general said.
He added that critically important aid includes lethal and non-lethal weapons, including interceptors for destroying Russian missiles, but the supply is insufficient.
“Paid for by European and Canadian allies. The truth is also that the Russians have a lot of these missiles and that, of course, the Europeans also are looking what they can do still to deliver from their own stockpile,” the NATO secretary general added.
He was asked whether the collective West could provide Ukraine with enough, and he replied that they could help Ukraine defend itself.
Rutte also said that Ukraine is developing its own capabilities to produce missile interceptors.
“Air defense is the hardest. But this this this so-called PURL initiative, where the Americans deliver the prioritization of American going bought by Europe going to Ukraine,” the NATO chief said.
PURL is a US and NATO international initiative established in mid-2025 to supply American weapons to Ukraine, funded not by Washington itself but by allies and partners, including European countries and Canada.
According to the latest reports, 24 NATO member states participate in the PURL program. Recently, Australia and New Zealand joined the initiative.
Recently, US President Donald Trump again claimed that the US no longer spends money on Ukraine, unlike his predecessors, and instead profits from it through the PURL program.
