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| Zakharov: American money allocated to Ukraine is returned to the United States |
| 2024-01-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. You can't walk around in an environment in which you are eyeball deep in printed cash and not be corrupt. [Regnum] The funds allocated by the United States of America to Ukraine are returned to Washington. This was stated on January 14 by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, on the air of the “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” program on the Russia-1 TV channel. “How can the United States help Ukraine? <…> Just allocate money for this. Where does this money go? This money goes back to this same democratic team,” she said. As Regnum reported, on October 22, 2023, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Washington Oksana Markarova said that most of the almost $61.4 billion in funds requested by Biden from Congress to help Ukraine will remain in the United States. According to her, $30.6 billion of this amount will be used for Pentagon programs, and $18 billion of it is intended to replenish defense goods from Pentagon warehouses, reimbursement of costs for services, military education and training provided to Kyiv. On December 12, Zakharova called the new $175 million package of American military aid to Ukraine a real criminal scheme to siphon off money. The diplomat clarified that in fact the United States admitted that Ukraine is nothing more than a way for them to line their pockets. According to American authorities, since the beginning of the special operation, the total amount of funding for Kyiv by Washington has amounted to about $113 billion. Half of this amount was spent on the military needs of Ukraine, and the rest to support the government and economy. |
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