Lithuania and Estonia join the PURL initiative and announce new aid packages for Ukraine.
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Lithuania and Estonia announced new contributions to the PURL initiative, which aims to jointly purchase weapons for Ukraine.
Ukrinform reports this .
Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Šakalienė stated that Vilnius is ready to allocate $30 million for this program and expects the next allied aid package to be formed soon.
“Lithuania is ready to allocate $30 million for PURL. We can transfer this money today if needed, and we very much hope that the next package will be formed as soon as possible,” Šakalienė noted.
In turn, Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur announced that his country will transfer a batch of drones worth tens of millions of euros to Ukraine this week and will join the Nordic-Baltic aid package under the PURL.
“We’ve decided to also donate a large number of drones worth tens of millions of euros this week. Our contribution will be $12 million,” Pevkur said.
According to him, the Nordic-Baltic aid package will be completed in the near future – perhaps even today.
Four aid packages, each valued at approximately half a billion dollars, have already been agreed upon under the PURL initiative. The next package is being developed for the Nordic and Baltic countries.
Earlier, “Pryamiy” reported that a meeting of NATO defense ministers would take place in Brussels on October 15 , during which a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council would be held. Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal will participate for the first time.
As a reminder, NATO is preparing a new support package for Ukraine. This week, new commitments from allies may be announced under the PURL program, an international initiative for centralized arms supplies to Kyiv.
It was previously reported that partners contributed $1.5 billion to NATO’s PURL initiative , which allows Ukraine to receive weapons from the United States.
Incidentally, in September,the Trump administration approved the first two NATO-funded military aid packages for Ukraine . These are the PURL (Purpose of Relief and Response) mechanisms, which allow for the rapid delivery of weapons from US stockpiles using funding from allies.
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