Arms supplies to Ukraine have not dropped following a decision by United States (US) President Donald Trump to stop direct donations to Ukraine, a senior NATO military official said.
After coming to office in January, the Trump administration only sold weapons or shipped donations to Ukraine that had already been authorised by former President Joe Biden, who was a staunch supporter of Kyiv.
Then from the autumn, under a mechanism developed by the US and its allies, called the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List, or PURL, Ukraine has been supplied with weapons from US stocks using funds from NATO countries.
Asked if there had been a drop in military supplies since Trump stopped donations, Major General Maik Keller, deputy commander of NATO’s Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU), said: “No, nothing.”
“There was no pause… it was just continuing and it’s not that the US exactly waits until it is paid for. As soon as one (PURL) package is announced, the flow of material is starting,” he told Reuters.
“We found a lot of European nations actually contributing to the funding.”
