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Brussels 03.12.2025 The Alliance foreign ministers gathered in Brussels to advance the NATO Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List – initiative (PURL) and to continue directing states towards 5% defense-spending target agreed with U.S. President Donald Trump at The Hague Summit.

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The agenda was also impacted by ongoing peace talks in Moscow. Several European allies reportedly requested clarity from Washington D.C., represented by the deputy Secretary of state Christopher Landau.

While the Alliance is focused on the military aid to Ukraine, the EU is workng towards assembling the €140 billion loan package for the warring country. Poland, Germany and Norway jointly pledged €500 million in military support, with Warsaw urging other allies to contribute generously via the PURL mechanism.

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The announcement was made in a joint statement by Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski and his German and Norwegian counterparts ahead of a NATO summit in the Belgian capital.

The summit saw the foreign ministers of allies discussing the NATO’s Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) mechanism, which is designed to speed up aid deliveries to Kyiv.

The PURL program, announced in July, allows NATO members to contribute financially to supply Ukraine with U.S. weapons to ensure the defensive capabilities.

Sikorski said that Poland would contribute $100 million to the program by the end of the year, Polish state news agency PAP reported, while Germany is set to provide $200 million.

Norway, in addition to its $500 million package with Poland and Germany, announced a second contribution with Germany and the Netherlands, also worth $500 million.

“This new contribution brings Norway’s funding for PURL support packages to a total of approximately $835 million in 2025,” Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said in a statement published on the ministry’s website.

Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said that Ottawa would also spend $200 million on U.S. weapons for Ukraine through PURL.

NATO has contributed four billion U.S. dollars toward PURL since the initiative’s launch in August, while the Secretary General Mark Rutte underlined that the alliance should spend at least $1 billion per month on the program next year.

Today’s meeting between the foreign ministers of NATO countries takes place a day after U.S. special envoy, Steve Witkoff, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid ongoing attempts by the White House to negotiate a peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine.

The talks didn’t bear fruit, however were useful to explore the exisiting possiblities, and possible avenues, according to the Kremlin’s top foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov, who answered a few questions of Russian journalists after the five hours long meeting with the envoyes of President Trump.

The Trump administration has intensified its efforts in recent weeks to find a solution to end the war in Ukraine.

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In November Washington presented Ukraine’s presidency with a framework document aiming at peace settlement with Russia, which contained an number of topics, including security, territorial, economic and political decisions.

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