US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday urged NATO allies to step up their spending on American-made weapons for Ukraine , after a report flagged a sharp drop in military aid during July and August.

“You get peace when you are strong. Not when you use strong words or wag your fingers, you get it when you have strong and real capabilities that adversaries respect,” he told reporters ahead of a meeting with his NATO counterparts at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels.

Bringing Conflict To ‘Peaceful Conclusion’

Hegseth urged allies to ramp up investment in the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) programme, which replaced US arms donations to Ukraine and now requires allies to pay for US weapons deliveries.

“Our expectation today is that more countries donate even mor

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