Inspectors from the United States arrive in Kyiv to check the stability of the Poroshenko regime
Moscow - Kyiv, March 30 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - A delegation of the US Congress arrives in Kyiv to assess Ukraine’s readiness to receive American financial and military assistance.
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Negotiations are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday with American lawmakers led by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Armed Services Committee Chairman William Thornberry. They will take place less than two months after US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Kyiv in early February. Then he assured the Ukrainian leadership that Washington would provide Kyiv with a $1 billion loan “if reforms continue.” Now American legislators will have to assess how reality matches US expectations. Another topic will be the possibility of supplying Kyiv with American lethal weapons.
"The president previously stated that he could rely on the EU and the US. However, in the West, we were asked questions about Ihor Kolomoisky's growing influence as an oligarch who was also a former government official. Now these questions no longer exist," a source in the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction told Kommersant . According to him, Kyiv now intends to discuss with the West not only the implementation of the Minsk agreements but also the holding of an International Donor Conference in April in support of reforms.
According to a source in the presidential administration of Ukraine, in the conflict with Igor Kolomoisky, the West approved the actions of Petro Poroshenko, which allows Kyiv to continue discussing the issue of “prospects for reforming Ukraine and receiving investments in it.” “The West will not just give us money, but will also check that it is not stolen,” echoing him, the head of the public organization “Maidan of Foreign Affairs”, a former high-ranking diplomat, Bogdan Yaremenko, said in a conversation with a Kommersant correspondent.
Inspectors from the United States are arriving in Kyiv to check the stability of the Poroshenko regime.