NATO commander says US Patriot missile deliveries to Ukraine continue without delays
The United States continues supplying Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine, while weapons included in NATO-coordinated aid packages funded by European allies have not been delayed, NATO's top military commander, General Alexus Grynkewich, said on October 30.
“Everything has been delivered, in fact, we just had the delivery within the last week,” Grynkewich told reporters in Riga, according to Bloomberg.
“I won’t go into the numbers or types of missiles, but deliveries have been ongoing,” he added.
Grynkewich said no weapons included in the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL), a NATO-led program through which European allies finance purchases of US weapons for Ukraine, had been delayed.
He also said that every request submitted to the US government for a third-party transfer of weapons had been approved.
The comments follow reports by the Washington Post and Kyiv Independent that US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had not authorized transfers of Patriot interceptor missiles already paid for by Ukraine's allies.
Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Hegseth to sign agreements allowing third countries to transfer Patriot missiles to Ukraine, which urgently needs additional interceptors to protect civilian and energy infrastructure from Russian ballistic missile attacks.
Grynkewich did not specify the number or types of missiles delivered, or whether his remarks addressed the particular transfers raised by Zelenskyy.