Patriot air defense systems, missiles and ammunition are among the American-made weapons NATO allies will buy under an arms deal brokered with President Trump to help Ukraine defend itself from Russian attacks, officials say.
Nearly all of the weapons are immediately available to ship to Ukraine, officials said, meaning they are either from existing military stockpiles or have just been built.
Neither Mr. Rutte nor Mr. Trump detailed what other kinds of missiles and ammunition might be sold to allies for Ukraine. It could include more of what Ukraine already got in the first three years of the war, such as 155-millimeter artillery shells that are crucial to holding back Russia on the front lines, officials said.
Some could be weapons that Ukraine has requested but never received from the United States, including deep strike Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles, or JASSMs (pronounced “jazz ’ems”). They can reach into Russia and can be fired from F-16 fighter jets that European allies have sent Ukraine over the past year.
Generally, a single Patriot battery costs about $1 billion to build, depending on the model, and interceptor missiles cost about $3.7 million each. JASSMs sell for about $1.5 million each. And 155-millimeter artillery shells can cost thousands of dollars per round.
Ukraine has about eight Patriot systems, although as recently as May, two were being refurbished and not functioning, U.S. officials have said. Most are positioned around the capital, Kyiv, which has left other cities vulnerable to Russian attacks.
Ukraine has other air defense systems, but only the Patriot has intercepted Russian ballistic missiles that can hit targets from many hundreds of miles away in minutes.
More Ukrainians were killed in June than in any other single month so far in the three-year war, the United Nations reported. Russian forces continue to advance in eastern Ukraine.