No New US Aid for Ukraine Since 2024: Weapons Now Flow Through NATO-Funded PURL Sales
Congress hasn’t approved significant new money for Ukraine since April 2024, the Congressional Research Service noted in its update of 31 August 2026. The US has committed more than $68 billion in weapons and equipment since February 2022. About $4.96 billion in authority to send weapons from US stocks remained unused at the end of June.
US weapons still reach Ukraine. Since July 2025 they’ve mostly come through PURL, the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List, under which European and other allies pay for US equipment. On 8 October the chair of NATO’s Military Committee said Ukraine had received $10 billion worth of US weapons that way.
How PURL works
Allies pledge money to NATO, which buys US weapons on Ukraine’s behalf. The proceeds go to the US Treasury and then to the Pentagon, either to refill stocks that were sent or to buy new equipment. By June 2026, CRS said, allies had announced about $6.3 billion and Treasury had received $4.8 billion, $2.3 billion of it to replenish Defense Department stocks. Norway, the Netherlands, Germany and Canada are the largest contributors.
For the US budget, PURL turns aid into sales. It keeps US production lines running without appropriations. For Ukraine, it means supply depends on allies’ budgets and on US production, which the war with Iran is now competing for. CRS reports NATO concern that Iran war demand is delaying deliveries.
Congress has kept a small line open. The fiscal 2026 NDAA authorises $400 million a year for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative in 2026 and 2027, and appropriators added $400 million for “European capacity building” allocated to Ukraine.
Talks in Miami
Diplomacy has moved to a new venue. On 9 and 10 October special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner hosted Ukrainian officials, European national security advisers, NATO and the EU in Miami. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent took part. Russia didn’t attend. The agenda was a partial ceasefire covering energy infrastructure and Black Sea grain shipments before winter, security guarantees, and an economic plan. Secretary of State Rubio has called the war a “diplomatic stalemate.” Envoys may visit Moscow later in October.
Ukraine said in January that a bilateral US security guarantee document was ready to sign and would need ratification by Congress. There’s no sign it has been signed or sent to the Senate.
Minerals and money
The US-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund, set up under the April 2025 minerals deal and run jointly by the US International Development Finance Corporation and Ukraine, made its first investment in March and its first minerals deal in early October, about $30 million in a rare earths and uranium platform. Its total commitments are about $70 million so far.
Congress passed a new Russia sanctions law in September, covered in our post on the Graham Act. Pressure on Moscow is now mostly through sanctions and tariffs. Direct support to Ukraine runs through allies’ money and US factories.
What to watch
The Miami outcome, a possible Moscow trip, and whether Congress takes up a security guarantee if one is signed. A new appropriation for Ukraine looks unlikely before the new Congress in January.