Rubio explained what Trump meant, talking about weapons for Ukraine at the expense of NATO

According to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump’s statement for weapons for Ukraine, which seems to be funded by NATO, concerned one of the existing mechanisms – the purchase of US weapons by European allies for further transfer of Kiev.

Source: “European Truth” with reference to Rubio’s words in the fields

Details: Trump said he had reached an agreement that the North Atlantic Alliance was paid for US assistance to Ukraine.

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Commenting on this, Rubio noted that this is not a new scheme of delivery of weapons to Ukraine, but rather about one of the options for military deliveries that already existed

This provides for the purchase of weapons in the United States by European countries and then the transfer of it to Ukraine, he explained.

“After all, some systems needed by Ukraine do not produce. They will have to be purchased in the US. In addition, I would like to point out that a number of defense weapons needed by Ukraine needed by our allies on NATO … And some have already made orders for them,” the Secretary of State said.

According to him, the US side calls for its allies to transfer the necessary weapons to Ukraine from their stocks and then buy a replacement in the US.

“It is much faster to transport something, for example, from Germany to Ukraine than to order it at the factory and wait for delivery. So there are several different approaches to this issue, but the main thing is that there are now existing resources in Europe that can be transferred to Ukraine, and then Europeans will be able to buy a replacement in the US.

Recall:

• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Germany and Norway are ready to buy three Patriot missile systems from the American manufacturer for Ukraine.
• It was also unofficial that Trump plans for the first time in his cadence to transfer weapons from US reserves for $ 300 million under the mechanism of presidential powers, which was usually used for this purpose by Joe Biden.

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