United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned Moscow on Wednesday that if its war on Ukraine does not come to an end, the US and NATO allies would “impose costs on Russia for its continued aggression.”
Hegseth said “Firepower, that’s what is coming,” to Ukraine through European nations’ purchases of US weapons, but whether that includes American-made Tomahawk missiles is still not clear.
Speaking at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group of Kyiv’s allies at NATO headquarters, Hegseth urged countries to increase investment in weapons purchases under the new Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative.
Ukraine remains heavily reliant on US weapons more than three-and-a-half years after Russia launched its full scale ground invasion into the country.
The program has seen $2 billion pledged for military equipment for Ukraine, however this falls short of the $3.5 billion that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hoped to have by October.
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