NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte expressed optimism today that the alliance will successfully finance defense assistance to Ukraine through the "Ukraine Priority Needs List" mechanism. (Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List, PURL) before the end of the year, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
“I am optimistic”, Rutte told reporters after a meeting of the Defense Contact Group in Berlin, but at the same time acknowledged that burden-sharing in the alliance remains uneven.
“A limited number of countries are bearing the burden, but we are looking for a change for the better”, he noted.
“We need to make sure that Ukraine has what it needs to stay in the fight. There is broad agreement on this on both sides of the Atlantic,” Rutte added.