Ukraine's President Voldimil Zelenceky has received about $ 76 billion of the United States, despite the approximately $ 175 billion in the United States to support countries that have been devastated in the war. I say that there is.
In an interview with AP communication released on the weekend, President Zelenceky said that most of the money assigned to Ukraine under the Biden administration had gone.
“When we hear that the United States has provided hundreds of billions from the United States in the past, we can tell you as a president of the war. We have over 75 billion dollars. I received it. I said。 “This assistance is not a cash, but rather a weapon that has reached about $ 70 billion, but about specific things.”
“But when Ukraine had received $ 200 billion to support the Army during the war, it was not true. I don't know where the money went,” Zelenceky acknowledged.
“Probably, hundreds of different programs apply to paper. I don't have any discussions. We are very grateful to all, but we actually received about $ 76 billion. That's an important assistance, but not $ 200 billion. “
Ukrainian leaders suggested that additional funds were probably sent to the humanitarian program.
“Perhaps the US President's administration has audited these programs and finds billions of bills, but we don't know where they have gone,” Zelenceky said.
He continued, suggesting that many organizations may have escaped from the country following the Russian invasion of Russia in 2022 and may have received US taxpayers.
The US Congress has approved about $ 175 billion for Ukraine -related spending since 2022, but many funds have been directed to US defense companies.
Analyzed by American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Found Last year, nearly 70 % of Ukraine's assistance was spent in the United States. For example, supplementing stockpiling of US weapons, purchasing weapons sent to Ukraine, and providing funds to the Defense Ministry of Defense.
In Washington, there were many years of concern that it had been sending billions of dollars to Ukraine in consideration of graft issues. In 2023, Transparency International ranked Ukraine as the second corrupt European country.
The U.S. House of Representatives monitoring committee discovered that “Ukrainian officials have been engaged in bribery, used government vehicles for personal use, and purchased the expanded food supply of the Ukrainian army.”
Despite being neglected the extensive corruption of the former Soviet state, New York Times In 2023, an unnamed Ukrainian officials reported that US taxpayers for military contracts had “failed to produce weapons and ammunition, and some money has disappeared.”
