US President Donald Trump announced this Monday that he will send weapons to NATO member countries with the aim of having them transferred to Ukraine and that these nations will be the ones to pay for these weapons.

“Today we have reached an agreement: We will send weapons and they will pay for them. We, the United States, will not make any payments. We will not buy them, but we will manufacture them and they will pay for them,” he stressed during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Trump said that the rest of the Alliance members “have a lot of money and they want to do it,” referring to the shipments of weapons to kyiv, which the president himself said would resume after the Pentagon recently decided to freeze supplies, arguing that it needed to review its inventories. “(NATO members) have a very strong opinion on this, and so do we, but we have a lot of money coming in and we simply don’t want to do any more (for Ukraine), and we can’t, but we manufacture the best and we will send it to NATO,” said the Republican. Trump explained that he will talk “about the whole Patriots issue, with Norway involved,” and said that the agreement also “includes missiles and ammunition,” implying that they could be weapons offensives.

The president explained that one of the member countries has 17 Patriot batteries that it does not need and that they will negotiate "an agreement so that all 17, or a large portion of them, will be destined for Warsaw."

"We have reached a very important agreement. It involves billions of dollars in military equipment that will be purchased from the United States, that will be destined for NATO, and that will be quickly distributed to the battlefield. Ukraine will begin to receive it," he added.

With information from EFE.