Ilon Musk distributed a video that USAID allegedly financed western stars to increase the popularity of Vladimir Zelensky.
The center of the fight against misinformation said that this is a fake, and the video was created by Russians for their own propaganda.
The video says that a number of American celebrities who came to Ukraine received multimillion -dollar payments from USAID to “increase the popularity of Zelensky among foreign auditors, including in the United States.”
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The video was mentioned by Angelina Jolie, Jean-Claude Van Damma, Orlando Bloom, Ben Stiller. It is marked by the Enews logo, but on his page there is no mention of this video.
The head of the NSDC disinformation center Andriy Kovalelenko said that this video was created by Russians for his own propaganda.
The history of the issue
Frozen assistance in the White House in Ukraine, which was through USAID in 2024, amounted to $ 4.28 billion – 2% of the country’s budget, Kyiv Post reports.
In total, from the very beginning of a complete invasion of the Russian Federation through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Ukraine allocated $ 2.6 billion for humanitarian assistance, $ 5 billion for development and 30 billion dollars of a direct budget.
This is our real background league. Without this, there were a lot of programs for restoring, repairing and restoring after shelling, in particular in the energy sector, it would be simply impossible, ”the Ukrainian official according to the conditions of anonymity said in publication.
Earlier on the same day it was reported that the USAID headquarters in Washington was closed, and the Secretary of State Marco Rubio was appointed temporarily acting as the USAID administrator.
The Trump administration is currently considering the merger of the US agency with international development with the State Department.
The day before, Trump said to reporters:
USAID controls a bunch of radical crazy. We will get rid of them, and then make a decision.
Already on Monday, Ilon Musk said that USAID “did not submit compensation” and that Trump agreed that the agency should be closed.
For their part, the sources of Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration also discusses the problems of liquidation of the Ministry of Education as part of measures to reduce the state apparatus, in particular, we will consider the possibility of transferring functions to the ministry to other departments.
Source: Racurs
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