The United States may appoint an inspector to control funds for Kyiv, and the Republicans will significantly complicate the acceptance of Joe Biden’s request for additional assistance to Ukraine.
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The Senate and the House of Representatives will have to find a compromise, writes Politico.
The publication believes that the request for additional funding for Ukraine in the amount of 24 billion dollars. is bound to face obstacles to approval by the Republican-majority House of Representatives.
Despite the fact that strong bipartisan support for Ukraine remains in Congress, according to US government sources, there is an active “against” position on the part of right-wing radical Republicans and politicians close to them. This will force Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy to seek a compromise to reach a new deal with Biden without losing support within his party.
Unnamed U.S. officials suggest that McCarthy may press Biden to cut Ukraine’s aid budget to at least partially satisfy both sides.
Another condition on the part of critical Republicans is the requirement to appoint a special inspector to control the use of funds provided to Kyiv.
According to Politico, the inspector may be designed to oversee Ukraine’s funding “in order to prevent corruption.”
The option to reduce the amount of the request does not suit everyone. Particularly in the Republican Party itself. Nebraska Senator Don Bacon said he would only vote for a package that would include all the weapons needed to defeat Ukraine over Russia, including long-range missiles.
Why give Ukraine a weapon that does not help it win the war? I no longer want to support decisions that lead to nothing, Bacon said.
Recall, the US State Department calls on Congress to promptly allocate additional assistance to Ukraine for 24.1 billion to support the country in the military, economic and humanitarian fields.
Earlier, on July 28, Politico reported that the first American Abrams tanks could appear on the battlefield in Ukraine, most likely in September. According to his interlocutors, several Abrams are planned to be sent to Germany in August, where they will be re-equipped, after which the first batch of tanks will be sent to Ukraine. It is in August, according to Pentagon officials, that about a 10-week training course for the Ukrainian military on the 31st training tank at the Grafenwehr military base in Germany should end.
Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova said earlier in an interview with The Huffington Post that amid criticism, Kyiv is open to more careful monitoring of the allocated funds. According to the diplomat, Washington already has three observers who monitor previously approved assistance to Ukraine in the amount of more than $75 billion – at the Pentagon, the State Department and the US Agency for International Development.
They found no evidence of widespread abuse, acknowledging the difficulty in keeping records during the war, Markarova said.
Source: Racurs
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