Kyiv, Ukraine-Ukraine expects that next month he will be in the Fund for the purchase of weapons from the United States and help maintain his more than three years of fight against the Russian invasion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelskyy, he said on Wednesday.
Financial arrangement known as a list of requirements for Ukraine with priority, or purl, NATO members packages, with the exception of the United States, for the purchase of US weapons, ammunition and equipment.
“We have received more than $ 2 billion from our partners specifically for the Furl program,” Zelenkyy said at a joint press conference in Kiev with a visit to the President of the European Parliament Robert Metsola. “We’ll get more money in October. I think we’ll have around $ 3.5 to $ 3.6 billion somewhere.”
Zeletskyy refused to provide details about what weapons the first shipments would include, but said they would certainly contain missiles for missile systems and ammunition Patriot for rocket missile systems with high mobility or Himary.
The end of the war seems to be closer, despite the months of peaceful efforts led by the US.
Patriotic systems are vital to defend against Russian missile attacks. Himars systems significantly strengthened the ability of the Ukrainian army accuracy.
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reaffirmed Russian readiness for peaceful conversations and told reporters on Wednesday that “we remain open by negotiations and rather straighten the Ukrainian crisis by political and diplomatic means.
Moscow, however, raised objections to key proposals and negotiations did not advance.
The latest Russian air attacks overnight caused disruption of Ukrainian railway and energy services, officials said on Wednesday. In addition, the Russian moving bomb hit the city in the southern Kherson region in Ukraine, injured three women and a three -year -old girl, said the regional head Oleksandd Pročudin.
Meanwhile, the US A-Ukrainian Fund invented to encourage investments in the Ukrainian mineral sector to be launched with $ 150 million from Seed Capital, higher Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday.
The US Fund funding agency will commit $ 75 million, while Ukraine agrees that Ukrainian Minister of Economy Oleksia Sobolev said.
“That’s enough to start the first major investments,” Sobolev said, describing the fund as a “lighthouse” that could draw further support from other international institutions.
In April, an agreement on the development of the Ukrainian mineral sector in the US was signed. It provides US preferential approach to new Ukrainian mining projects and aims to stimulate reconstruction and allow continuing military assistance from Ukraine from the USA
Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that the Fund will initially focus on energy, infrastructure and critical mineral projects with the aim of finance three projects by the end of 2026.
Hanna Arhirov and Illia Novikov contributed to this report.
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