{"id":621,"date":"2026-06-03T22:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/621\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:33:21","slug":"zelenskyy-presses-allies-for-missiles-as-nato-arms-funding-lags-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/621\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy presses allies for missiles as NATO arms funding lags \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PURL was set up last summer after U.S. President Donald Trump ended new military aid commitments to Kyiv, and Rutte has been raising money for the initiative from donor countries.<\/p>\n<p>The NATO leader said Ukraine\u2019s partners had pledged nearly $6 billion through the scheme. However, last year, allies pledged $5 billion, suggesting NATO has only finalized $1 billion in additional cash during the first five months of 2026 \u2014 far below the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/nato-ukraine-weapons-prioritized-ukraine-requirements-list-purl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$12 billion goal<\/a> Rutte had set for this year.<\/p>\n<p>Inside NATO, officials insist that countries have already agreed to donate more, but these are awaiting final approval to be announced as formal packages. While \u201cwe are a little bit behind\u201d on contributions, allies have committed \u201cmillions\u201d more than Rutte can announce publicly, said a person familiar with the matter, who was granted anonymity to speak freely.<\/p>\n<p>An alliance official speaking on behalf of the organization told POLITICO: \u201cThe Secretary General was clear that support to Ukraine through PURL will continue, so we should expect more pledges in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The funding debate comes as the alliance scrambles to present a concrete funding pledge to reassure Kyiv ahead of the July summit of NATO leaders where Zelenskyy will attend on the sidelines. <\/p>\n<p>Allies previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/natos-rutte-asks-allies-for-billions-more-in-ukraine-aid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rejected a proposal by Rutte<\/a> to earmark 0.25 percent of their GDP to Ukraine. They are now mulling a German proposal to increase the transparency of contributions paired with an as-yet undefined absolute funding target, according to three NATO diplomats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PURL was set up last summer after U.S. President Donald Trump ended new military aid commitments to Kyiv,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[460,461,60,57,13,156,299,66,462,463,20,71,49,438,464,222,465],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-air-defense","tag-boris-pistorius","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-drones","tag-iran","tag-mark-rutte","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-procurement","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war-in-iran","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}