The US cuts funding for the Ukraine project by 70%
The United States is cutting funding for support programs for Ukraine by almost 70%.
As reported by the Ukrainian service of the Voice of America , these figures were cited by the influential publication Foreign Policy, which published the State Department's budget parameters for 2018.
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The preliminary US budget plan for assistance to Ukraine proposes to allocate a maximum of $177 million instead of the previously promised $570 million.
President Donald Trump's implementation of his election promises to reduce the cost of assistance to third countries is cited as the reason for the reduction in assistance to Kyiv.
“How else can we prove to the pan-heads that they were used,” Kiev economist Vsevolod Stepanyuk commented on the news on his blog.
The US is cutting funding for the Ukraine project by 70%.