US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks as he arrives at a NATO meeting in Brussels on Wednesday Virginia Mayo/AP

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said ‘firepower’ is coming to Ukraine through European nations’ purchases of US weapons, but whether that includes American-made Tomahawk missiles is still not clear.

“Firepower, that’s what is coming,” said Hegseth, speaking ahead of a meeting with NATO defense ministers in Bussels, adding that “commitments” made by European nations would soon turn into “capabilities” for Ukraine.

The weapons purchases are being made under the new Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative, which has already seen two billion dollars pledged for military equipment for Ukraine, with more expected to be committed by NATO nations o

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