"The first weapons supplied to Ukraine under a programme funded by its European allies will include missiles for Patriot air defence systems and Himars rocket launchers, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday. The two initial batches are worth US$500m each. Ukraine has secured over $2bn in financing via what is called the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List, or Purl. Ukraine's president said he expected the total committed funds to reach $3.5bn in October."
"It was likely a missile fired at Russian drones from a Polish plane that hit a house, a government minister said on Wednesday, when UAVs swarmed into Poland in an unprecedented violation of Nato airspace. Authorities initially said one of the 21 Russian drones hit the house on the night of 9-10 September. The minister, Tomasz Siemoniak, said on Wednesday: Everything indicates that it was a missile fired by our plane, defending Poland, defending the fatherland, defending our citizens."
The first weapons to be supplied under a European-funded programme will include missiles for Patriot air defences and Himars rocket launchers, with two initial batches worth US$500m each. More than $2bn has been secured through the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (Purl), with total commitments expected to reach $3.5bn in October; four Purl packages have already been funded and equipment is flowing. Russia closed Volgograd airport and put oil refineries on alert after explosions and air-defence activity amid reports of drone attacks. A missile from a Polish plane likely hit a house during a UAV swarm that violated Nato airspace; an investigation will be conducted while responsibility for the provocation was placed on Russia. Denmark will acquire long-range precision weapons for the first time, calling the move a paradigm shift to deter a sustained Russian threat.
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