
The news is reported by Ukrainian portal Suspilno, referring to information from an employee of the USAID office in Kiev. The Development Agency International USAID suspends funding for all projects in Ukraine – also for agriculture and export – because of the necessity of a audit.
Funds withheld
This is due to the executive order, which January 20 was signed by the new President of the United States Donald Trump. On his power all U.S. programs of foreign aid were temporarily suspended for a period of 90 days, until the review and determine, whether they fulfill the objectives set present by Washington. As reports Suspilne, USAID employees in Kiev do not yet have detailed instructions, on how to implement the directive and whether there will be exceptions to this decision.
The reports of this decision were to Ukrainians freshly surprised. According to Financial Times, diplomats from the Bureau of European and Eurasian Asian Department of State have requested the Secretary of State US Marco Rubio to completely exclude Ukraine from Trump’s Directive, which came in to life on the minute Friday 25 January. Facts indicate, that nothing has happened, however.
Investments under the mark request
USAID supported in Ukraine the reconstruction of schools, provision of medical services and repair of energy systems. In addition to this American agency funded projects such as “Economic Support Ukraine “and USAID AGRO, serving modernization of the agricultural and food sector and increasing exports. As reported by Ukrainian media, there are already receiving letters concerning suspension of financing – from USAID or organizations dependent on US funds.
Since the beginning of Russian aggression in 2022 USAID has provided Ukraine with 2.6 billion dollars of humanitarian aid, 5 billion dollars of development aid and over 30 billion
dollars of direct budgetary support. In th th year of USAID funds planned including. reconstruction and reconstruction of road and rail
passes on the borders with countries of the EU, or infrastructure of terminals in Odessa.
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