{"id":1306491,"date":"2025-10-15T10:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/finland-will-join-natos-initiative-to-purchase-american-weapons-for-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:03:34","slug":"finland-will-join-natos-initiative-to-purchase-american-weapons-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/finland-will-join-natos-initiative-to-purchase-american-weapons-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland will join NATO&#8217;s initiative to purchase American weapons for Ukraine."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"176\" data-end=\"387\"><strong data-start=\"176\" data-end=\"385\">Finland has announced its intention to join NATO&#8217;s PURL initiative, which envisages the purchase of American weapons for Ukraine. Helsinki will also announce a new military aid package soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"389\" data-end=\"506\"> Finnish Defence Minister Antti H\u00e4kkanen announced this ahead of a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"508\" data-end=\"617\"> &#8220;Finland will join PURL. It&#8217;s crucial that Ukraine receive American weapons,&#8221; he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"619\" data-end=\"752\"> According to H\u00e4kkanen, the Finnish government will release details of a new military aid package for the Ukrainian Armed Forces this week.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"774\" data-end=\"1007\"> PURL (Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List) is a joint US-NATO program aimed at accelerating arms deliveries to Ukraine. As part of the initiative, Kyiv is developing a list of priority weapons needs for transfer to its allies.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1009\" data-end=\"1182\"> Partners finance the purchase of American weapons, the funds are deposited into a special NATO account, after which the United States makes direct deliveries in accordance with Ukraine&#8217;s requests.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1064\" data-end=\"1196\"> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/shche-bilshe-zbroi-dlia-ukrainy-nato-zapuskaie-novyy-etap-postachan\/\">NATO is preparing a new support package for Ukraine.<\/a> This week, new commitments from allies may be announced under the PURL program, an international initiative for centralized arms supplies to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/initsiatyva-purl-zaluchyla-1-5-miliarda-dolariv-na-zbroiu-zelenskyy\/\">partners contributed $1.5 billion to NATO&#8217;s PURL initiative<\/a> , which allows Ukraine to receive weapons from the United States.<\/p>\n<p> Incidentally, in September,<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ssha-skhvalyla-pershi-pakety-dopomohy-ukraini-za-koshty-nato-shcho-vidomo\/\">the Trump administration approved the first two NATO-funded military aid packages for Ukraine<\/a> . 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.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland has announced its intention to join NATO&#8217;s PURL initiative, which envisages the purchase of American weapons for Ukraine. Helsinki will also announce a new military aid package soon. Finnish Defence Minister Antti H\u00e4kkanen announced this ahead of a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels. &#8220;Finland will join PURL. It&#8217;s crucial that Ukraine receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1306491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}