{"id":1784,"date":"2025-02-03T02:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2025-02-03T03:38:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:38:02","slug":"zelensky-has-no-idea-where-most-of-200-billion-in-us-aid-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/zelensky-has-no-idea-where-most-of-200-billion-in-us-aid-went\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky has no idea where most of \u2018$200 billion\u2019 in US aid went"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiev received far less than the amount repeatedly cited by President Trump and other US officials, the Ukrainian leader insists<\/strong><\/p>\n

Washington has provided Kiev with just over $75 billion in military and other types of assistance, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has claimed, adding that he has no idea where the estimate of $200 billion originated or where such an amount could have vanished.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump, who has been highly critical of his predecessor Joe Biden\u2019s generosity toward Ukraine, has repeatedly argued that the European Union and other NATO states should \u201cequalize\u201d<\/em> their contributions with Washington\u2019s support.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in there for $200 billion more than the EU. I mean, what are we, stupid?\u201d<\/em> Trump said<\/a> last month. His Vice President, J.D. Vance, referenced the figure as early as last July, saying, \u201cWe have now spent $200 billion. What is the goal? What are we trying to accomplish?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In an interview with the Associated Press published on Sunday, Zelensky insisted that Ukraine never received even half of that sum.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it is said that Ukraine received $200 billion to support the army during the war \u2013 that\u2019s not true. I don\u2019t know where all that money went. Perhaps it\u2019s true on paper with hundreds of different programs \u2013 I won\u2019t argue, and we\u2019re immensely grateful for everything. But in reality, we received about $76 billion. It\u2019s significant aid, but it\u2019s not $200 billion,\u201d<\/em> Zelensky said.<\/p>\n

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USAID tried to block DOGE audit<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Since 2022, the US Congress has authorized<\/a> roughly $175 billion for Ukraine, but a significant portion of that funding has reportedly gone to American industries and various US government activities related to the conflict. According to Germany\u2019s Kiel Institute, as of October 2024, the US had allocated approximately $92 billion in financial and military aid to Ukraine, while EU countries and the UK had allocated $131 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zelensky also insisted that he has seen little actual cash, as more than $70 billion of the aid came in the form of direct military assistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are also many other humanitarian programs I\u2019m uninformed about, except for knowing of their existence. Perhaps the US president\u2019s administration will audit these programs and find additional billions, but I don\u2019t know where those funds went,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine must be held accountable for \u2018stealing\u2019 US aid \u2013 retired Naval officer<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Among his first actions upon returning to office, Trump suspended US foreign aid for 90 days to review its alignment with his administration\u2019s objectives, vowing to put \u201cAmerica first.\u201d<\/em> The cut affected many Kiev-related initiatives, particularly those funded by grants from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, USAID\u2019s official website went offline, and its X account disappeared, amid reports that the White House was considering merging the agency into the US State Department. The newly created US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, has reportedly sent inspectors to audit USAID\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cUSAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die,\u201d<\/em> Musk wrote on Sunday. In a brief comment the same day, Trump also criticized the agency, calling it \u201crun by a bunch of radical lunatics and we are getting them out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kiev received far less than the amount repeatedly cited by President Trump and other US officials, the Ukrainian leader insists Washington has provided Kiev with just over $75 billion in military and other types of assistance, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has claimed, adding that he has no idea where the estimate of $200 billion originated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}