{"id":318646,"date":"2025-08-05T02:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318646\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T02:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:11:09","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-netherlands-to-buy-e500m-of-us-arms-for-kyiv-in-first-for-new-nato-supply-line-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318646\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Netherlands to buy \u20ac500m of US arms for Kyiv in first for new Nato supply line | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    The Netherlands has said it will contribute \u20ac500m ($578m\/\u00a3500m) to buy US military equipment for Ukraine<\/strong>, becoming the first Nato country to contribute to a new mechanism to supply Kyiv with American weapons. The Dutch defence minister, Ruben Brekelmans, said on X on Monday that the package would include Patriot parts and missiles. Nato\u2019s chief, Mark Rutte, welcomed the announcement and said he had encouraged other alliance members to participate in the new mechanism, called the Nato prioritised Ukraine requirements list (Purl) initiative. \u201cThis is about getting Ukraine the equipment it urgently needs now to defend itself against Russian aggression,\u201d Rutte \u2013 a former Dutch prime minister \u2013 said in a statement, adding that he expected \u201cfurther significant announcements from other allies soon\u201d. President Donald Trump said last month the US would provide weapons to Ukraine, paid for by European allies<\/a>, without providing details on how this would work.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    The US ambassador to Nato said he expected many more countries to announce over the coming weeks that they would participate<\/strong>. \u201cWe\u2019re moving as fast as possible,\u201d Matthew Whitaker told Reuters on Monday. Asked about a timeline for getting US deliveries to Ukraine under the new mechanism, he said: \u201cI think we\u2019ll see it moving very quickly, certainly in the coming weeks, but some even sooner than that. The Dutch are just the first of many.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the Netherlands\u2019 decision<\/strong>. \u201cUkraine, and thus the whole of Europe, will be better protected from Russian terror,\u201d the Ukrainian president said on X. \u201cI am sincerely grateful to the Netherlands for their substantial contribution to strengthening Ukraine\u2019s air shield.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy is expected in Moscow<\/a> days before Donald Trump\u2019s deadline on Friday for Russia to make progress on ending the Ukraine war<\/strong> or face increased US sanctions, reports Shaun Walker<\/a><\/strong>. <\/strong>The US president said Steve Witkoff would visit Moscow on Wednesday or Thursday. When asked what message Witkoff would take to Russia and what Vladimir Putin<\/a>, the Russian president, could do to avoid new sanctions, Trump: \u201cGet a deal where people stop getting killed.\u201d Sources in Kyiv said they expected Keith Kellogg, Trump\u2019s Ukraine envoy, to visit the country towards the end of the week, possibly to coincide with Witkoff\u2019s visit to Moscow.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Ukraine said on Monday it had charged six people, including a lawmaker and a government official, for embezzling funds in the purchase of drones and jamming equipment for the military<\/strong>. Anti-corruption authorities said on Saturday they had uncovered a scheme offering kickbacks for purchases at inflated prices and that it allegedly involved a legislator, one current and one now-sacked official, a National Guard commander and two businessmen. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau alleged the bribes totalled about 30% of the contracts\u2019 value and that the drone contract was worth $240,000, with an inflation of about $80,000.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had visited Ukrainian troops holding the line in the Kharkiv region<\/strong> bordering Russia and discussed how drones were used in fighting. \u201cOur warriors in this sector are reporting the participation of mercenaries from China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and African countries in the war,\u201d the Ukrainian president said on a social media on Monday. \u201cWe will respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Donald Trump said on Monday he would substantially raise tariffs on goods from India<\/a> over its Russian oil purchases<\/strong>. \u201cIndia is not only buying massive amounts of Russian Oil, they are then, for much of the Oil purchased, selling it on the Open Market for big profits. They don\u2019t care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian War Machine,\u201d Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. \u201cBecause of this, I will be substantially raising the Tariff paid by India to the USA.\u201d Trump earlier announced a 25% tariff on Indian goods starting last Friday, while New Delhi said it would safeguard its interests and called its targeting \u201cunjustified\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Russia\u2019s Ryazan oil refinery has halted around half its refining capacity since 2 August after a Ukrainian drone attack last week<\/strong>, three industry sources told Reuters. Two primary oil refining units at the Rosneft-operated refinery \u2013 about 180km south-east of Moscow \u2013 were stopped after the attacks, they said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Netherlands has said it will contribute \u20ac500m ($578m\/\u00a3500m) to buy US military equipment for Ukraine, becoming the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-318646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114973736003803022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}