{"id":36256,"date":"2025-12-04T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/nato-chief-pitches-monthly-billions-on-weapons-for-kiev\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:30:09","slug":"nato-chief-pitches-monthly-billions-on-weapons-for-kiev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/nato-chief-pitches-monthly-billions-on-weapons-for-kiev\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO chief pitches monthly billions on weapons for Kiev"},"content":{"rendered":"

The military bloc should ramp up purchases of US weapons for Ukraine, Mark Rutte has claimed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

NATO countries should spend at least \u20ac1 billion ($1.17 billion) a month on weapons for Ukraine next year, the military bloc\u2019s secretary-general, Mark Rutte, has claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The call comes amid US-mediated peace efforts to settle the Ukraine conflict. Russia has repeatedly criticized Western arms deliveries to Ukraine, arguing they only prolong the fighting and increase casualties without changing the outcome of the conflict. Despite that, European NATO members have pledged to keep providing weapons to Kiev and have launched their own militarization campaign.<\/p>\n

According to Rutte, who was speaking in Brussels ahead of a NATO foreign ministers meeting on Wednesday, the future payments would be channeled through the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) program.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, this is offensive and defensive, including interceptors for the air defense systems,\u201d<\/em> he said. The NATO chief also called it \u201cgood news\u201d<\/em> that members of the military bloc have secured about \u20ac4 billion ($4.68 billion) since August under the PURL scheme, adding that \u201cwe need for the full year again a lot of money.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cAt least 1 billion, maybe even a little bit more than 1 billion a month,\u201d<\/em> Rutte said.<\/p>\n

The push comes as the cash-strapped EU faces pressure to finance Ukraine for the next two years amid Kiev\u2019s financial crunch.<\/p>\n

Several NATO states have recently announced fresh funding under the PURL scheme, including two joint packages worth $500 million each, co-financed by Germany and Norway, according to media reports. Canada has previously backed a separate $500 million PURL package through the military bloc\u2019s Nordic and Baltic group, NATO said.<\/p>\n

Norway\u2019s Foreign Ministry, however, recently suggested some assistance provided to Kiev could have been stolen or diverted. The remark followed a massive corruption scandal that revealed a $100 million kickback scheme \u2013 allegedly headed by an ally of leader Vladimir Zelensky \u2013 in Ukraine\u2019s energy sector, which relies heavily on foreign aid.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The military bloc should ramp up purchases of US weapons for Ukraine, Mark Rutte has claimed NATO countries should spend at least \u20ac1 billion ($1.17 billion) a month on weapons for Ukraine next year, the military bloc\u2019s secretary-general, Mark Rutte, has claimed.\u00a0 The call comes amid US-mediated peace efforts to settle the Ukraine conflict. Russia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 15:38:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}