Ukraine is shocked by the decision of US President Donald Trump’s administration to suspend all foreign aid programmes, the British newspaper Guardian has said.
Earlier, the White House said that Trump signed an executive order to suspend development assistance to other countries for 90 days to assess the compliance of these programmes with the foreign policy of the United States.
‘Ukraine is shocked by the Trump administration’s shocking decision to immediately suspend all US foreign aid programmes, as a whole range of projects in the country… were effectively halted overnight,’ the publication said.
As noted, attempts by USAID’s Kiev office to maintain funding for some of the most important packages were rejected in the US.
‘They asked to exclude some of those programmes they considered critical, but they failed,’ the newspaper quoted a source as saying.
Earlier, the Ukrainian TV channel Public, citing sources, said that the Ukrainian office of the US international development agency USAID had been ordered to stop all projects in the country following the decree to suspend US aid to third countries. As the source stressed, at the moment the employees of the Ukrainian office of the organization have no information about the further fate of the programme in Ukraine.