Germany to allocate another $400 million for Ukraine’s air defence within PURL initiative
Germany will allocate $400 million to strengthen Ukraine’s air defence and purchase Patriot missiles under the PURL initiative, said Germany’s Defence Minister Boris Pistorius ahead of the NATO Defence Ministers' Meeting on Thursday, reports European Pravda.
According to the Minister, it is the fourth time Germany contributes to the PURL package; this time, the country will allocate $200 million for critically needed munitions for air-defence systems. “In doing so, we are saving lives every day and every night,” he said.
Another $200 million from Germany will go to the purchase of PAC-3 missiles for the Patriot system through the Jumpstart program.
“We have also agreed to contribute $200 million for the purchase of PAC-3 guided missiles. So we are moving forward,” Pistorius added.
The German minister also called on other countries to join in financing the purchase of PAC-3 missiles to strengthen Ukrainian air defence.
More about PURL initiative
In July 2025, US President Donald Trump announced that the US would provide Ukraine with “billions of dollars” in weapons, to be purchased and distributed by European NATO allies. He also said that up to 17 Patriot air defence systems were being prepared for shipment to Ukraine.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte called the decision “quite logical.” He said Trump called him and said he had decided that Ukraine should get “everything it needs to defend itself,” but he wanted Europe to pay for it.
The new US-NATO mechanism for supplying US-made weapons to Ukraine is officially called the Priority Ukraine Requirements List (PURL).
At the end of 2025, then Ukraine’s Minister of Defence Denys Shmyhal said that since its start, the PURL initiative had provided nearly 75% of all missiles for Patriot systems and nearly 90% of missiles for other air defence systems supplied to Ukraine.