NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned this Monday that the Alliance has a limited capacity to supply air defense missiles to Ukraine.
“There is a limit to the number of interceptors in NATO territory,” asserted the head of that Alliance in a press conference before the military bloc’s summit in Ankara. Furthermore, he assured that the allies are doing everything possible to produce more weapons. “We need to make sure we produce more, that is one of the reasons why Ukraine itself has been working […] to see what they can do to help NATO allied partners produce more interceptors. So we are working from all angles, everyone is involved,” he indicated.
At the same time, the senior official maintained that Washington “is doing everything possible to comply with the PURL program”, which allows European allies to purchase U.S. weapons for Ukraine. Ukrainian forces use Patriot systems, of U.S. production, which incorporate missiles that are produced only in the U.S.
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Rutte’s statements came several hours after the Kiev regime asked the military bloc to send more missiles.
In May, Rutte asked members of the alliance to allocate 0.25% of their GDP to aid for Ukraine. The proposal arose in response to the discontent of some countries, which claim that they “do much more for Kiev” than others. Meanwhile, NATO has already allocated nearly $6 billion to Ukraine under the PURL initiative, aimed at supplying US weaponry to the Slavic country. For his part, the leader of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, again accused his Western allies last week of not supplying Ukraine with enough anti-aircraft missiles and of failing to keep their promises.
