The administration of the dignified US President Joe Biden will not be caught before the new head of state Donald Trump takes office implement the entire amount as part of the financial aid for Ukraine praised in the spring of 2024 by Congress. You will lose “a handful” of billions of dollars.
This was stated by Sabrina Singh, the intercessor of the river transport head of the head of the US Department of Defense, as reported by RBC-Ukraine at her briefing in Washington.
In the course of the meeting with representatives of the ZMI, it was suggested that the Biden administration is stressed by the fact that it will lose a significant amount as part of the presidential renewal of the fast-track amendment (PDA) – the main the mechanism that Washington used to deliver the armor to Ukraine.
“Before Ukraine, you know, will lose a few billion dollars in new importance for the new administration, so you know that there work with them the replacements that were lost,” the intercessor of the riverine trader told the Pentagon.
Considering the possible risk of “freezing” assistance given to Ukraine from the side of the United States by the new Trump administration, Singh said that Kiev may bipartisan support in the American Congress.
“And as a result of our efforts, Ukraine continues to achieve successes on the battlefield… They (Ukrainians, – ed.) pay for the support of the received States and other regional allies and the coalition through the Contact group for the defense of Ukraine (partners in the Ramstein format, – ed.),” she added.
A representative of the American Defense Department also said that the Trump administration is already in control and will work on new positions PDA programs like lose it.
“Of course, we are confident that the contact group supporting the defense of Ukraine will continue to work in earnest. And, of course, the support of Ukraine in the Congress will become less strong,” added Singh.
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Help for Ukraine from the side of the United States
Guess what, the US Congress praised a maximum of 175 billion dollars in aid for Ukraine and its allies after the start of a large-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in the bitter end of 2022.
A significant part of this aid found in the form of long-term financing of the US defense industry, as the Pentagon plans to replace the equipment sent to Ukraine.
In the spring of 2024, recent ZMI wrote that the Biden administration was in regular negotiations with Congress to authorize the addition of 6 billion dollars in defense aid to Ukraine. At that time, it was clear that most of the 7.8 billion dollars that were on the PDA due to Biden’s signing of the government bill were not from the government.
Yesterday, 8 September, the Voice of America wrote about those announced in the near future, the final aid package for Ukraine under the Biden administration will be worth 500 million dollars. Thus, almost 3.8 billion dollars in support of Kiev will be left unfunded, and the entire sum will be spent before the end of Biden’s term in the White House.
As the Pentagon was informed, the cost of moving to the order of Donald Trump after his inauguration on September 20.
Additionally, AP previously wrote that the aid package for Ukraine, which will be announced on September 9, will be provided from existing US reserves. Thus, Kiev may be relinquished until Trump's inauguration.
It is also likely that the PDA program allows the American president to transfer defense goods and services from US reserves to the government at “supervision” situation.”
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