NATO Will Buy More US Weapons for Ukraine: Hegseth
Source: Newsweek
Published Oct 15, 2025 at 03:21 AM EDT updated Oct 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM EDT
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the U.S. expects NATO allies to purchase and donate "even more" American weapons for Ukraine under a key arms initiative, as defense ministers from the alliance gathered at its headquarters in Belgium on Wednesday.
Speaking alongside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte as they entered the meeting, Hegseth said the purchases would be made under the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative to provide Ukraine with greater "firepower."
Why It Matters
Rutte announced the PURL initiative alongside President Donald Trump in July. The scheme means European members of the alliance, alongside Canada, will regularly foot the bill for equipment Ukraine needs to fend off Russian attacks and the U.S. can more quickly provide.
Ukraine is heavily reliant on its Western backers, but has massively ramped up its production of domestic weapons and equipment since the start of the full-scale war in February 2022. The U.S. stopped announcing military aid packages for Ukraine at the start of the year.
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