Ukraine will buy weapons through NATO. A groundbreaking decision

The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), the North Atlantic Alliance’s centralised procurement agency, will be responsible for the sale of ammunition and military equipment to Ukraine. The agreement will facilitate the acquisition of resources and reduce costs that arose when negotiating bilateral agreements with individual countries.

Quoted by the Financial Times, Jacqueline Borsboom, Director of Operational Support at the NSPA, emphasised that Kyiv’s benefits would stem, among other things, from economies of scale. As a potential example, she cited a situation in which the authorities in Ukraine would determine they needed tens of thousands of uniforms and would commission this specific agency to source and order them.

The information provided by the FT is another example of the strengthening ties between the government in Kyiv and the NSPA. Several months ago, Ukrainian defence companies gained the right to participate in tenders for supplies to the agency, and last week, the NSPA organised its own event in Kyiv.