In order to continue meeting Ukraine’s most urgent needs in terms of military equipment to defend itself against Russian aggression, Germany, alongside other allies, is prepared to fund one of the first comprehensive support packages totalling up to 500 million US dollars within the framework of the PURL mechanism (Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List).

US President Donald Trump announced on 14 July that the United States will supply Ukraine with military equipment and ammunition in the form of several support packages. Under the PURL mechanism, NATO will coordinate implementation and, at the same time, ensure that the items included in the packages meet Ukraine’s most urgent needs. The European partners and Canada are to provide the funding.

The support packages will include military equipment that is either not manufactured by the European defence industry or that can be delivered at the intended scale more swiftly by the United States than by European partners or Canada. This includes, for example, critical air defence capabilities. These are urgently needed to counter Russia’s ongoing airstrikes, which are killing ever more civilians throughout Ukraine.

We are grateful to the United States for its readiness to continue supplying weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, and we welcome the recently announced contributions from Allies in this context.

By deciding to take part in the initiative, we are underscoring our commitment to substantially strengthen and reliably continue our support for Ukraine and to demonstrate Alliance solidarity. The German Government is closely coordinating the details with NATO and the NATO Allies.

Since the start of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022, Germany has made available or earmarked for the coming years a total of around 40 billion euro in bilateral military support for Ukraine.