US delaying Patriot missiles already paid for under NATO initiative, Zelensky says

The United States is delaying the delivery of Patriot interceptor missiles already paid for under a NATO-coordinated weapons purchasing initiative, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Bloomberg on Oct. 18. Washington has approved only some of the missiles purchased through the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative, which allows NATO allies to finance the purchase of U.S.-made weapons for Ukraine, Zelensky said, according to Bloomberg. "The American side approved the delivery of only some of them, but not the rest. And this is not a technical issue," Zelensky said. The Ukrainian president said the U.S. is currently supplying...