Washington provides Ukraine with Patriot with the funding of the Allies news

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski said today, Wednesday, that the United States will provide his country with Patriot missiles and Himars within the Ukraine Military Support Fund.

He added that missiles for Western air defense systems are part of the first group of American weapons that are sent under the list of “priority Ukraine requirements” funded by non -American allies.

“We have received more than two billion dollars from our partners specifically for Pearl. We will receive additional money for the month of October, and I think we will get between 3.5 billion and another $ 3.6 billion,” Zellinski said.

He added, “The first and second packages of $ 500 million … will include these packages … Certainly, missiles for Batriot and Himarm,” he added.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, with Washington’s approval to send the first batch of American weapons as part of the new NATO mechanism.

Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hiuri Tichy, said that the Ukrainian army is following the process of receiving weapons, describing the move as positive, adding that the United States agreed to the first shipments of military aid to Ukraine under a new mechanism funded by other allies.

Reuters quoted sources as saying that the Undersecretary of the US Defense Ministry for Political Affairs, Elberbridge Colby, agreed to up to two charges of $ 500 million under the new mechanism known as “a list of Ukraine’s priority requirements.”

This is the first use of a new mechanism developed by the United States and its allies to provide Ukraine with weapons from US stocks with funding from NATO member states.

Since February 24, 2022, Russia has launched a military attack on its neighbor, Ukraine, and requires that it be to be able to join Western military religions, which Kiev considers interference in its affairs.

Ukraine has scrambled more than 3 and a half years ago, with Western support, against a large -scale Russian invasion, and more than 122 billion euros of aid and external loans were used to finance public expenditures, according to Ukrainian sources.