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According to the documents seen by the “Financial Times” and “Familiar with this”, American diplomats have requested urgent exemptions on Ukraine -related plans, and 90 days of freezing issued by Secretary of State Marco Rubio frozen And the “stop work” command.
Senior diplomats at the European and Eurasian Affairs Bureau of the State Council quoted national security issues and asked Rubio to give comprehensive exemptions to exclude the work of Ukraine’s US international development institutions (USAID) immediately after the issuance of the grand instructions was immediately after the grand instructions were issued.
“We don’t know if the request is all or partially approved-but so far, the signal far away from Washington.” A email sent to Ukraine’s US international developer on Saturday, which has been reviewed by FT. Essence
According to the emails and officials organized by these partners, the U.S. International Development Agency in Ukraine temporarily issued a “stop work” order until it can provide a clarity for its partners.
The agency also requires employees to evaluate the plan “and find them more clearly supporting the Secretary of State instructions to make the United States more secure, stronger and more prosperous.”
But on Saturday night, some organizations began to receive the “stop work” command.
The organization’s order shared an order that “the contractor immediately stopped working in accordance with the US International Development Agency/Ukrainian contract/task order immediately”.
The order said that the contractor “must not restore the work.. Until receiving the written notice from the contractor officials, the stop order was canceled.”
The State Department, the US International Development Agency, and the United States Embassy in the United States did not respond to the request of comment.
In the internal cables of the State Department and the US International Development Agency (USAID) on Friday, Rubio instructed all new foreign aid expenditures to be suspended. Signing and gift officials were instructed to “immediately issue stop orders.. After review, the secretary should be determined before.”
The review is expected to spend up to 85 days, causing the fate of hundreds of foreign aid contracts in the United States (the annual value of more than $ 70 billion in fiscal year in 2022) is in trouble.
Ukraine officials and non -governmental organizations will enter the Russian comprehensive war in the fourth year next month, and warn that if they have not given up the new Secretary of State of Donald Trump, such as schools and hospitals, economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economic and economical The development of economic and economic planning and other planned energy infrastructure is dangerous.
Kiev’s non -governmental organization director said that frozen funds may be the “disaster” of their groups and Ukraine.
There are some exceptions to the Rubio’s orders, including the “approval exemption” of Israel and Egypt for military financing and foreign emergency assistance. However, the cable did not mention the exemption of Ukraine, and Ukraine relied on Washington’s military assistance to fight against Russia.
The State Department and the US Embassy in the United States did not respond to clarifying the requirements of the Rubyo instructions because it was related to Ukraine’s new military assistance.
However, a Ukrainian government official who knew about it confirmed to the British Bank that US military assistance did not comply with the frozen order. The official said: “Military assistance to Ukraine is intact.” “At least so far, this is definitely not part of these 90 days of freezing.”
According to statistics from the State Council, the United States has provided Kiev with $ 65.9 billion in military assistance since Russia has completely invaded Ukraine.
Trump has always expressed doubts about Ukraine’s US military assistance and laughed at Volodymyr Zlenskyy as “the greatest salesman on the planet”. He worked hard to ensure that the weapon worth billions of dollars was worth billions of dollars. And ammunition.
Trump said this week that he wanted to “transactions” between Kiev and Moscow to end the war. He added that ZELENSKYY was “enough” and threatened Vladimir Putin for more sanctions, unless he conducted a sustenance.
