{"id":1356739,"date":"2026-02-11T22:57:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/great-britain-joins-purl-initiative-defense-minister-announces-assistance-for-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:27:59","slug":"great-britain-joins-purl-initiative-defense-minister-announces-assistance-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/great-britain-joins-purl-initiative-defense-minister-announces-assistance-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Participates in PURL Program, Signals Defense Assistance for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Kingdom will support the PURL initiative by purchasing weapons for Ukraine from the United States, signaling continued military assistance amid the ongoing conflict.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Politico, this<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-join-nato-us-weapon-scheme-war-ukraine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> was reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>London plans to allocate \u00a3150 million, which is equivalent to more than \u20ac170 million.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am pleased to confirm that the UK is committing \u00a3150 million to the PURL program,\u201d said Defence Secretary John Healy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He emphasized the need to provide Ukraine with critically important air defense that will counter Russian attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this way, the United Kingdom became an ally of Ukraine, which was the last to join NATO&#8217;s program to purchase American weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was previously reported that Sweden<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/shvetsiia-ta-daniia-peredadut-ukraini-systemy-ppo-na-sotni-milyoniv-ievro\/\">\u00a0and Denmark agreed to jointly purchase and transfer air defense systems to Ukraine<\/a> for a total of 2.6 billion Swedish kronor (290 million euros).<\/p>\n<p>As is known, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-otrymaie-vid-kanady-rakety-dlia-ppo\/\">Canada will transfer AIM missiles to Ukraine<\/a> for air defense systems.<\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom will support the PURL initiative by purchasing weapons for Ukraine from the United States, signaling continued military assistance amid the ongoing conflict. According to Politico, this was reported. London plans to allocate \u00a3150 million, which is equivalent to more than \u20ac170 million. \u201cI am pleased to confirm that the UK is committing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1275814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1356739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356739","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356760,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356739\/revisions\/1356760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1275814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}