NATO, US Developing New Approach to Arms Supplies for Ukraine

The United States and NATO are working on a new mechanism for providing military aid to Ukraine, which is based on European Alliance members paying for American weapons.
The Gaze writes about it, referring to Reuters.
Informed sources of the agency reported that NATO countries, the United States, and Ukraine are developing a new mechanism that will be aimed at supplying Kyiv with weapons from the list of Ukraine's priority needs, known by the abbreviation PURL.
It is expected that Ukraine will determine the priority types of weapons it needs in tranches of approximately $500 million, and NATO allies, coordinated by Secretary General Mark Rutte, will then agree among themselves who will provide or pay for the items on the list.
With this approach, NATO allies hope to provide Ukraine with $10 billion worth of weapons, a European official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
"This is a starting point, and it is an ambitious goal that we are striving for. We are now moving in this direction. We support this ambition. We need that amount," the source told the agency.
As the American interlocutor explained to Reuters, the mechanism under discussion allows the lengthy procedures for selling US weapons to replenish its own stocks to be effectively bypassed. However, NATO countries will have to pay the US in advance for the accelerated replenishment of stocks.
The technical details of such payment — in particular, the mechanism for transferring funds to the US — are still being discussed, Reuters notes.
As The Gaze reported earlier, the United States and Germany have agreed to provide Ukraine with five Patriot air defence systems, which are to be delivered to the battlefield as soon as possible.