Members of Ukraine’s Territorial Defence Forces on duty in the Kyiv region with a Browning M2 machine gun used to shoot down Russian drones, 14 July 2025. Photo: EPA / MARIA SENOVILLA
The White House has approved the first US weapons shipments to Ukraine funded by its NATO allies, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing two anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
The deliveries, which consist of up to two shipments valued at $500 million (€423 million) each, will be carried out under the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL), a recently introduced mechanism facilitating the purchase of US weapons to be supplied to Ukraine that are paid for by other members of NATO.
If confirmed, this would mark PURL’s first use, and the first time that new US military aid to Ukraine has been approved during US President Donald Trump’s second term more broadly.
Until now, the Trump administration had only approved two types of transfers: US weapons bought by Kyiv itself, and US military aid packages authorised by former US president Joe Biden, who left office in January.
According to Reuters, US Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby has signed off on the shipments, which could be sent “soon” as Washington resumes transfers to Kyiv.
Though Reuters did not specify the weapons that had been approved for sale to Washington’s NATO allies, it did say that it would include air defence systems, which Ukraine has been urgently requesting for months, though particularly since the intensification of Russian missile and drone strikes over the summer.
“It’s the stuff they’ve been asking for. A lot of stuff,” one Reuters source said. “It’s the flow that’s allowed them to stabilise the lines thus far.”
In August, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine was aiming to secure at least $1 billion (€844 million) a month from its European allies to purchase US-made weapons under the PURL framework, which could ultimately provide Ukraine with as much as $10 billion (€8.5 billion) worth of military hardware, Reuters reported.