Ukraine determines its own weapons needs and submits a request, and it has the option to request, for example, interceptor missiles to shoot down Russian ballistic missiles, European Commission spokesperson Balázs Ujvári said during a briefing on Thursday, UNN reports.
Regarding the 90 billion, there is indeed a great deal of work under way here. At this point, we have allocated €8.5 billion to Ukraine for defence purposes this year. This amount will be used for fighter jets, missiles and drones of various types, both short- and long-range. This is what we have funded so far, but it can be said that Ukraine is leading this process. Ukraine determines the needs. Ukraine assesses the situation on the battlefield, determines its needs and submits what we call a product list. We study the product list and act on that basis. Ukraine has a great deal of scope to make a request, for example, for interceptors or associated equipment, and then we can consider it, so the exchange continues, product lists continue to come in, and contracts continue to come in. We review them in an extremely expedited manner and then make the relevant expenditures
Asked to clarify the main problem with providing these interceptors, the spokesperson replied: "I am not aware of any problems."
"So I just want to emphasise that Ukraine needs to determine what it needs, so they have the right to determine practically any equipment. Of course, the aim, the main aim, is to consider weapons produced in the EU and Ukraine; if, for some reason, there is a need to deviate from the rules, and taking the broader picture into account, that is also possible and provided for by the relevant rules, so that we can take such scenarios into account as well," he said.
"I ask for a little patience from you, so we are going to proceed as follows: as soon as we internally approve the future product schedule, we will inform you of it. That is what we did when the president announced the allocation of €10 billion for missiles, drones and fighter jets. That is exactly how we will proceed. So we will approve the subsequent product schedules, then, of course, we will inform you about them, but I can confirm that, as I said last Thursday, there are no summer breaks in this. We are working at full capacity day and night to make as much progress as possible as quickly as possible," the European Commission spokesperson stressed.
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The number of air-defence missiles supplied by partners has fallen threefold compared with 2025, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported.
Speaking at a meeting of the National Security and Defence Council devoted to winter resilience, as The Guardian reports, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not rule out the possibility that the halt in missile supplies from Western allies was "aimed at making Ukraine, so to speak, more inclined to compromise" in peace negotiations with Russia.