BRUSSELS — NATO's Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska on Tuesday urged allies to give Ukraine more air-defence interceptors from their own stockpiles, telling the Kyiv Security Forum in Brussels that $10 billion of crucial equipment, including air defence, has already been delivered through NATO's Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative and US Foreign Military Sales.
Source: NATO News
“Every interceptor in our stockpiles matters, but every interceptor in the hands of Ukrainian Armed Forces means that we save lives every single day, and every single night,” Shekerinska said, according to NATO. She spoke alongside Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Vsevolod Chentsov, European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen and former Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
In her full remarks, published by NATO, Shekerinska said 99% of interceptors and air-defence systems for Ukraine were provided by NATO allies, that this year's focus was the $10 billion going through PURL, and that more funds are still needed before the end of the year. Yaani: $10 billion is 1,000 crore dollars — ten arab dollars of equipment. She welcomed the European Union's decision to use some funds from the Ukrainian Support Loan to support the PURL model, and pointed to the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting due in mid-November.
Source: NATO transcript of remarks
Shekerinska cited the Netherlands as an ally that had already pledged additional support that day, describing €1.2 billion going to non-military purposes, especially energy, alongside funds for military equipment with a focus on man-portable air defences and air defence. Reuters separately reported on Wednesday that the Dutch government would give Ukraine €1.2 billion (about $1.3 billion) in non-military support over the next three years — €380 million for reconstruction next year and around €410 million in both 2028 and 2029 — announced hours ahead of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to The Hague.
Source: Reuters via Northland News Radio
Separately on Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte welcomed European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius to NATO Headquarters, where the two discussed military mobility, defence production and support to Ukraine, NATO said. Rutte praised the EU decision enabling the Ukraine Support Loan to fund support through PURL, which NATO said continues to deliver essential equipment including air defence.
The appeal puts the burden plainly on allied stockpiles ahead of winter: NATO is saying the pipeline and the money model exist — what Ukraine still lacks, night after night, is interceptors already sitting in allied warehouses.