Canada to contribute US$200m to arms procurement programme for Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that Canada will contribute an additional US$200 million to the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL), a programme that enables Kyiv's allies to procure US weapons for Ukraine.

Source: Zelenskyy on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda

Details: Zelenskyy reported on a Washington-format meeting on the sidelines of the European Political Community summit in Yerevan.

Quote from Zelenskyy: "We held a detailed discussion on strengthening air defence: the production of necessary European systems and missiles, support for the PURL initiative, and ways to equip Europe with its own anti-ballistic capabilities.

I thank Canada for a new contribution to the PURL initiative. Prior to the meeting, Mark Carney announced an additional US$200 million."

Background:

• Zelenskyy reported earlier that three more countries joined the PURL programme during an informal summit of European Union member states in late April.
• Prior to this, Ukraine's Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov stated that several countries had announced new contributions to the PURL scheme during a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (also known as the Ramstein format).

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