NATO weapon fund for Ukraine hits $4.18B with five new countries joining PURL
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Andrii Sybiha said that five new countries joined the PURL initiative this week. (Photo: Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry)
More than $4 billion has been pledged by 21 countries to
PURL, NATO’s program for purchasing U.S. weapons for Ukraine, Foreign Minister
Andrii Sybiha said
on Dec. 5.
Sybiha wrote on Facebook that his visit to NATO headquarters
this week generated roughly another $1 billion in contributions to the PURL
program.
He said five new countries joined the initiative, while
nations already taking part made eight additional contributions.
“As of today, 21 countries are participating in PURL — with
total commitments amounting to $4.18 billion. We are very grateful to each of
them,” Sybiha said.
He added that he held talks at NATO headquarters with the
alliance’s secretary general and the foreign ministers of Belgium and Germany.
Ukraine’s foreign minister said he also had a number of
brief conversations with counterparts from Canada, Norway, Denmark, and other
partner countries.
Sybiha stressed that this was “one of the most productive”
meetings of the Ukraine–NATO Council he could remember.
Earlier, he said five NATO countries confirmed they would
allocate $1 billion to the PURL program to support Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later clarified that
Norway announced a new contribution to PURL. Canada and Luxembourg also
announced increases.
In November, NATO said Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland,
Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden would fund a joint military aid package
for Ukraine worth $500 million under the PURL mechanism.
The Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative
was created in summer 2025 as a mechanism to rapidly supply Ukraine with U.S.
weapons and technology using voluntary contributions from NATO members and
partner countries.
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