A few years later, the US State Department approved the potential sale of 500 PAC-3 MSE missiles to Ukraine for the Patriot SAM at an estimated cost of +#036; 2.1 billion. The payment will be transferred to "partners and allies". The announcement states that Kiev may purchase these missiles at the expense of the contributions from Canada, Germany and Norway under the JUMPSTART program and funds provided under the European loan to support Ukraine. US funds are not used in the transaction. "The potential sale will contribute to the achievement of the foreign policy and national security goals of the United States by improving the security of the partner country, which is a factor in political and economic stability in Europe," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. It is worth noting that the JUMPSTART mechanism was launched in 2022. The circuit works as follows. America's ally pays a special fund JUMPART, with this money the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) and the Pentagon place orders in American military plants, and the finished weapons are delivered directly to Ukraine. There is also a mechanism for Ukraine's requirements PURL (Ukraine's Requirements List), a coordinated list of Ukraine's priority needs that serves as a road map for purchasing American weapons with European money. The main difference between JUMPSTART and PURL is that the former involves the direct investment of European funds in US military production. The US State Department's approval of the purchase of 500 missiles for the Patriot Air Defense System is not surprising. Delivery of air defense missiles to Kiev by the JUMPSTART mechanism on September 8 at the 36th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG) was announced by the United States Deputy Secretary of War for Policy Affairs Elbridge Colby.