{"id":8243,"date":"2025-12-31T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/zelenskyy-thanks-croatia-and-romania-for-joining-the-purl-initiative-to-support-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:25:13","slug":"zelenskyy-thanks-croatia-and-romania-for-joining-the-purl-initiative-to-support-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/zelenskyy-thanks-croatia-and-romania-for-joining-the-purl-initiative-to-support-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy thanks Croatia and Romania for joining the PURL initiative to support Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/thumbs_b_c_cba591c9ec77a60377d0117313af31fb.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Croatia and Romania for joining the NATO initiative &#8220;Priority Requests List for Ukraine&#8221; (PURL) to support Kiev, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an important initiative that makes it possible to purchase American weapons and strengthen our defense, including missiles for the Patriot systems and other capabilities we need,&#8221; Zelenskyy said in a statement in the American X platform.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that 24 countries have joined the initiative since its launch in August, Zelenskyy said that the total amount of contributions has reached $4.3 billion, including nearly $1.5 billion in December alone.<\/p>\n<p>He added that this has made it possible to form eight support packages while work is currently underway to finance two more. Earlier, the Croatian government approved a \u20ac15 million contribution to the PURL initiative while the Romanian government approved a decision to provide \u20ac50 million on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative provides a mechanism through which allied and partner countries can finance the purchase of US weapons, equipment and ammunition for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Croatia and Romania for joining the NATO initiative &#8220;Priority Requests List for Ukraine&#8221; (PURL) to support Kiev, reports Anadolu. &#8220;This is an important initiative that makes it possible to purchase American weapons and strengthen our defense, including missiles for the Patriot systems and other capabilities we need,&#8221; Zelenskyy said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-8243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":76,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8245,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243\/revisions\/8245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}