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White House Explains Where Your $1.3 Billion Went In Ukraine
Just minutes after Poroshenko's fearmongering speech to US Congress (and in the face of a collapsing Ukraine economy), The White House has released its "fact sheet" to explain exactly how committed (aside from the lethal aid demands - which may or may not be happening as we noted here) to supprting Ukraine the US taxpayer is... On top of guaranteeing $1 billion of Ukraine's debt, a further $291 million in 'assistance' has been flooded in... here's what for...
FACT SHEET: U.S. Support for Ukraine
The United States is firmly committed to supporting Ukraine as it works to establish security and stability, respond to humanitarian and reconstruction needs, conduct democratic elections and carry out constitutional reforms, restore its economy, and combat corruption. Along with our international partners, including the IMF, the United States is committed to supporting Ukraine’s reform agenda while also ensuring that Ukrainians are able to determine their future without intimidation or outside coercion.
In pursuit of these objectives, the U.S. government has provided approximately $291 million in assistance to Ukraine this year as well as a $1 billion loan guarantee. This includes the President’s announcement today of a new package of assistance totaling $53 million, of which:
- More than $7 million will be directed to international relief organizations to provide humanitarian aid to those affected by the conflict in Ukraine’s east.
- $46 million in security assistance will support Ukraine’s military and border guards. This is in addition to the $70 million in security assistance we have previously announced.
The President has also asked U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker to lead a U.S. Government delegation to Ukraine September 26-27 to meet with senior Ukrainian government and business leaders and discuss Ukrainian economic reform efforts and the steps that the government needs to take in the short- and medium-term to strengthen its business climate and build an economy that attracts private capital.
The U.S. government will continue to work with Congress to identify additional opportunities for U.S. assistance to Ukraine. For example, the Administration has requested from Congress an additional $45 million in FY 2015 as part of the President’s European Reassurance Initiative that would help build Ukraine’s capacity to provide for its own defense and increase interoperability with U.S. and Western forces.
Examples of U.S. assistance to Ukraine in response to the crisis include the following:
Humanitarian Assistance and Reconstruction
- The U.S. government is contributing to the work in Ukraine of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).
- These contributions are supporting Ukrainian efforts to ensure adequate reception of internally displaced persons (IDP) as well as to facilitate IDP returns when security conditions allow, including through the provision of food, cash, hygiene kits, medicines, and domestic and winter items. We are also supporting efforts to address the humanitarian needs of vulnerable populations in Luhansk and Donetsk through support for emergency activities including the procurement and distribution of safe drinking water and relief commodities.
- The U.S. government is also providing immediate support for economic recovery, small infrastructure repair, and restoration of public services in conflict-affected areas in the east.
Security Sector Capacity Building and Reform
- With today’s announcement, the U.S. government has committed to providing $116 million in equipment and training to Ukraine’s security forces to help Ukraine better monitor and secure its border, operate more safely and effectively, and preserve and enforce its territorial integrity. Ukraine’s security forces include their Armed Forces, National Guard, and State Border Guard Service.
- This assistance includes the provision of body armor, helmets, vehicles, night and thermal vision devices, heavy engineering equipment, advanced radios, patrol boats, rations, tents, counter-mortar radars, uniforms, and other related items.
- The United States has also begun a process led by U.S. European Command and Department of Defense civilian and military experts to work with Ukraine to improve its capacity to provide for its own defense and set the stage for longer-term defense cooperation. This includes medical advisory and security assistance advisory teams.
National Unity, Democracy, Human Rights, and Media
- The United States has contributed funding and personnel to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) that is monitoring and providing daily reporting, particularly in the conflict regions in the east.
- During Ukraine’s May presidential election, U.S. assistance supported the work of international and domestic election observers as well as efforts to strengthen election administration, voter education, election security, and independent media. The United States is providing similar assistance for pre-term parliamentary elections scheduled for October 26.
- U.S. assistance is also supporting Ukrainian efforts to promote an inclusive process of constitutional reform that will help Ukraine meet European standards and drive the process of decentralization.
- The U.S. government is supporting civil society organizations to engage in public outreach, participate in the government reform process, and monitor and defend human rights.
- We are also providing assistance to boost the capacity of independent media outlets to provide unbiased information and to increase access to information in all parts of Ukraine. In mid-October, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) will launch a daily, 30-minute Russian language television news program that will be a joint production of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Voice of America. The program will be shown on television affiliates in Ukraine, as well as in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Georgia, and possibly other countries. BBG will seek to make the program available to Russian-speaking news-seekers worldwide via digital platforms.
Economic Stabilization, Reform, and Growth
- In May, Ukraine closed on its offering of a $1 billion sovereign bond, guaranteed by the United States. With the support of the proceeds raised by the loan guarantee, Ukraine is implementing a new social protection program to compensate vulnerable households for increases in gas and heating tariffs, which will reach 30 percent of the population. The U.S. loan guarantee was part of a coordinated international effort to ensure Ukraine has the resources it needs, which will provide $27 billion to Ukraine as it implements its IMF program.
- Immediately following Ukraine’s change in government in March, the U.S. government deployed advisors to help stabilize the financial sector and implement key reforms in partnership with the Ukrainian Finance Ministry and National Bank. These advisors are supporting a range of reforms related to issues such as banking supervision, public sector debt management, infrastructure finance, and taxation.
- U.S. assistance also is supporting policy changes that will lay the groundwork for growth in important sectors of the Ukrainian economy. For example, we are helping Ukrainian authorities to carry out reforms that will boost private sector investment in agriculture, improve access to credit and capital investment for farmers, and streamline agricultural sector regulation.
- The United States is also contributing to international programs, including through the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), to support increased access to finance for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to help Ukraine implement the reforms it needs to attract international investment.
Energy Security
- We are sending a team of experts to help the Ukrainian government to meet its energy needs this winter.
- The U.S. government also is working with other international donors to help Ukraine develop strategies to ensure that energy subsidy programs are targeting the most vulnerable Ukrainians and to increase end-use energy efficiency, including among households and in the industrial sector.
- We also are supporting Ukrainian efforts to enhance its own energy production, including through technical assistance to help restructure Ukraine’s national oil and gas company, Naftogaz, and through the introduction of new technologies to boost yields at existing and new conventional and unconventional oil and gas fields in Ukraine.
Trade Diversification and Promotion
- The U.S. government is providing training and technical assistance to build Ukraine’s expertise on World Trade Organization (WTO) obligations and rights and how to meet WTO food safety standards.
- The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is convening the U.S.-Ukraine Trade and Investment Council to support Ukraine’s efforts to boost bilateral trade and investment and combat intellectual property theft.
- U.S. assistance is supporting efforts to help SMEs access new international markets. This includes plans for a U.S.-Ukraine agribusiness trade mission to promote two-way trade between our countries.
Anti-Corruption
- The United States is working closely with Ukrainian authorities and others in the international community to help recover stolen assets, including through joint investigative activities as well as support for evidence collection and processing activities.
- We are also helping Ukrainian officials develop laws and regulations that will establish anti-corruption institutions within the government and enable authorities to combat corruption more effectively. Through support for expanded e-governance and procurement reform we are also working with Ukrainian authorities to limit opportunities for corruption.
- We are also contributing to international efforts, including through the OECD and the EBRD, to deter foreign bribery and improve Ukraine’s business climate.
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It went to fund Criminal UNITED STATES, CORP. Fascist.
And where is the rest? Nuland was talking about $5 billions. $4 billions still missing. Black money. CIA business. Typical american style.
...Obama Administration is the Evilist, Machavelian and Crookedest US entity in America's History.
Red or blue don't matter, each one is eviler machiavellianer and crookeder than the last
McMolotov: This empire shit is expensive.
Bioscale: And where is the rest? Nuland was talking about $5 billions. $4 billions still missing. Black money. CIA business. Typical american style.
= The empire is using the missing 4 bn to build the Death Star in preparation for WW3 but of course they need to stir things up with multiple 'incidents' around the globe first.
Where is Boris' cut!?
Boris, maybe you can get a job administering the "ministry of truth". They need some good Eurasians (or is it Oceanians?) to "provide assistance to boost the capacity of independent media outlets to provide unbiased information and to increase access to information in all parts of Ukraine."
So $116 million went to hiring mercs.
Was wondering who paid that dead Belgian merc that had his helmet cam video recovered by seperatists ...
Progressive policy at it's finest.
Grimaldus
Perhaps also the crookedest in Kenyan history as well.
@ Bioscale,
That's off the "Books" in the Black Budget which by Conservstive estimates goes into the Billions if not Trillions.
Quadrillions if you're honest about how much money the deep state has really spent (printed)
Total created dollars ( including creditcard debt ) hasn't quite hit 500 trillion yet.
But give it a few years.
Just getting military supply depots established ahead of the NATO move.
This empire shit is expensive.
its all "free". being paid for by 1's and 0's on a computer in yellen's office.
Trillions more the Federal Reserve can print.
We are also providing assistance to boost the capacity of independent media outlets to provide unbiased information and to increase access to information in all parts of Ukraine. In mid-October, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) will launch a daily, 30-minute Russian language television news program that will be a joint production of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Voice of America. The program will be shown on television affiliates in Ukraine, as well as in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Georgia, and possibly other countries. BBG will seek to make the program available to Russian-speaking news-seekers worldwide via digital platforms.
Looks like we took it over. Nothing like the reserve currency. Did they leave out the amount we used to orchestrate the Coup de ta? Did not see that in the line items. Was that 4 billion?
"The United States has contributed funding and personnel to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) that is monitoring and providing daily reporting, particularly in the conflict regions in the east."
More Criminal NGO's to help with the continued Destabilization Campain, PsyOp, False Narratives & Propaganda Scrips.
"$46 million in security assistance will support Ukraine’s military and border guards. This is in addition to the $70 million in security assistance we have previously announced."
The border. Right.
$7mil for Hershey bars and bottled water? Can't Porkyshankyou at least cover the bill for the fucking chocolate?
More than $7 million will be directed to international relief organizations to provide humanitarian aid to those affected by the conflict in Ukraine’s east.
We can't even get this to feed our own people.
As long as we save somebody else and not ourselves.
Fuck it.
So...ummmmmm...like...Dude. What is the angle? Like.....ummmmm....why don't we just send the welfare to Detroit. I hear things there aren't so rosy. Or....ummmm....like...why don't we pay these rif-raf "children" coming into America illegally through Mexico to just stay home. You know....experience the American way of getting paid not to work from in front of your very own TV set in Nicaragua.
That Paul ryan is such a douchebag. We wves his charts and spreadsheet projecting that the federal budget will be balanced in 2035. Then Putin burps and we blow billions to accomplish....what. Was any of this in the budget? Or should I say three month continuing resolution? I almost voted for Obama figuring that Ryan's nonsense might prolong the time until the collapse while Obama would cause it to happen within months. The longer it takes, to happen, the worse it will be. But when you remember that the Prez appoints the judges, you have to go with the ones who won't assign full citizenship rights to the poor children even before they leave Central America.
Because Detroit doesn't border on Russia... yet.
hmmm it's funny how money is available very fast for situations like this lol
The US government will shutdown in November because we're out of funds but the governments of Ukraine, Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq,........will keep on going with their flow of dollars from the US. Nothing to see hear, move along.
I was down at an Eastern European think tank in Washington DC a few months back. One of the presenters allowed that the whole Bohemian lot of them couldn't think past two weeks ahead to worry about the winter. Another said that Ukraine was the most corrupt government on the planet. A third said that they do temperature control in the winter by opening windows.
Face it. No matter how our puke government spins it, all of those funds are fungible. IOW, it all goes right into Putin's pocket. There is nothing that the US State Department has touched since Korea (perhaps WWII) that it hasn't made worse.
the United States is committed to supporting Ukraine’s reform agenda while also ensuring that Ukrainians are able to determine their future without intimidation or outside coercion
I guess the outside coercion the United States has been engaging in for the last decade in the Ukraine doesn't count. Curiously omitted by the sociopaths that are hell bent on destroying the world. I wish the proverbial shit would just hit the fucking fan already.
OK. Let's play a game. By what name will we call the Ukraian "nationalists" when they split and join Putin. Starting from Islamic State Iraq and Syria, we could get.....Mongol Union Steppes and Ukraine. MUSU. I like that.
I love it when they take our toys, guns and money and we have to spend more money and blood to take it back from them.
Obama is such a total joke/amateur. Or is he hell bent on destroying the US and giving a master's class? He did tell Putin he would be more flexible after the election.
And how can this be verified?
Thought so.
District of Criminals.
From the archives of ZH: WHO to BLAME
Charlie Reese | 545 vs. 300,000,000 People | Zero HedgeI still can't believe I am reading headlines about the U.S. providing millions of dollars in aid to the Ukraine.
To The freaking Ukrianne! What the hell for?
Can Obama or anyone in the U.S. government give me a concise, one sentence answer why?
It takes much more time to tell a lie than to tell the truth.
Nothing adds up here. There has to be an ulterior motive for us propping up a country whose government we just recently helped overthrow.
This is truly the Twilight Zone and I am actually fearful of how it may end.
To establish a new homeland for the Khazarian tribe.
I still can't believe I am reading headlines about the U.S.
providing (B)illions of dollars in aid to Ukrainian Nazis.
Someone needs to buy those snazzy black uniforms for the Svoboda puke "punishment" battalions. Those civilians won't shoot themselves, ya know?
""I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar soaked fingers out of the business of these [Third World] nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the 'haves' refuse to share with the 'have-nots' by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don't want and above all don't want crammed down their throats by Americans." -General David Sharp [Former United States Marine Commandant 1966]"
did Gen Sharp meet his end in a small airplane ... or did he "slip" off the 8th floor?
-General David Sharp [Former United States Marine Commandant 1966]
+1000
$1.3 billion?
like hoo cares ... i mean no one in DC seemed to care where the $8 billion in cash airlifted from NYFRB to Baghdad went
"Brought to you by Carl's Jr."
It went towards funding the following in terms of "Double Speak."
A "Peaceful Democracy" - A serviceable Puppet State. See also "Democratic Transition."
"Illegitimate" - Against NATO's wishes.
"Looking Forward" - Allowing Criminals to walk free.
LOL! What an oxymoron. Wait! This is like funding ISIS to defeat ISIS! Or fighting debt by monitizing more debt! AAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The US government have truly gone mad!
Indeed...the anti-corruption clause is BY FAR the best sections, pure comedy gold.
WHAT THE HELL BUSINESS DOES US HAVE
MEDDLING IN UKRAINE AT ALL???????
"will launch a daily, 30-minute Russian language television news program that will be a joint production of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Voice of America"
I'm sure this will be truly unbiased stuff seeing as how up until about a year ago Voice of America was prohibited from broadcasting their propaganda in the USA by an act of congress which was repealed. The board has shut down just about all Russian media in the country, so 30 minutes from America should be enough.
/sarc
WHILE DETROIT GENTLY WEEPS.
The people of Detroit are the cause of the city's problems.
Ever see one of those lists of what ONE Billion dollars would buy, in America. You could probably get five times that in third world Ukraine. Pockets being lined.
The real question is what can $30 million buy?
Hopefully the truth. From the Saker comments...
I tried to watch the President Porky speak to congress but after a full minute they were still giving him a standing ovation and he hadn't said a word yet! I thought what a bunch of self serving egomanics! They are all slapping each other on their backs or butts, congratulating themselves for being gods gifts to the universe, and then give us a fact sheet to prove just how deluded they are in thinking its OK for 40 plus million Americans to be on food stamps, we can still support the new king of the Ukies, because he doesn't like Russians and he must have a white hat like us!
I can't watch being lied to so wait for the printed version.
The Historic Attack on ISIL is not historic due to any random nature of this unnecessary war.
It is deemed Historic" because the troops told to attack ISIS are the nation's 28 year olds who needed a survival job in a crap economy were called "lazy" by America's caucasian thieving baby boomer draft dodgers or by CNN on behalf of these baby boomers. http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/17/real_estate/millennials-still-home/index...
The timing couldn't be any more precious.
(98% of the recent NAVY NON-OFFICER GRADUATING NAVY BOOT CAMP HAS A BACHELOR'S DEGREE)
Freeloading theiving economy killing BABY boomer "victims" with the voting majority were too lazy to take a bath and they're calling 28 year old combatants "lazy".
Now about this war. Um, we can't afford to support Hunter Biden's position on the Board of Directors' position on Ukraine's largest gas supplier.We can however afford the puts on American natural gas companies who obviously lobbied for the conflict. They are the ones who should be on the front lines.
You KNOW your FUCKED when you go Cap in Hand to CONgress for a HANDOUT which comes with Terms&Conditions that SCREW not only your country and it's workforce but your children and your children's children.
. . . . but that is the AIM of the US & EU FIGURINE FUCKS.
To the Ukrainian man and women in the STREET ' WAKE THE FUCK UP '.
This is what happens when you have a bunch of standing armies hanging out with nothing to do.
They find something to do... protecting you!
Now admit it, You feel very safe, don't you?
I imagine the folks with Boeing stock are thrilled.
Omg the US government can't even recover stolen vehicles with the CA license plates with Mercedes Benz logo still on them driven by the Mexican cops... how are they going to get "stolen property" back to the Ukrainians?
They won't even help young Americans get our lives back from generational theiving baby boomers. How are they going to get "stolen property" back to the Ukrainians?
Oh wait, Ukraine owes Russia.
After paying more than 1/2 million in Fed taxes and Social Security not to mention state and local taxes this baby boomer has only realized a 400.00 refund from Bush Jr and the luxury of having access to the electrical grid, clean water, with flouride, and paved streets. We're not all on the take.
I forgot Medicare
A task force, headed by raspukin to return the missing gold.......
who cares where those dollars went? we can print MOOOAAAAAR
Choom and bitches, bitchez.
$53 million? How much again?
The Ukraine stole $5 billion from Russia by not paying for gas.
Swiss Bankers celebrate with each "assistance package."
How do you say Boooyaaaahhhhhh in Swiss?
You need to wring out the corruption from the EUkrainian economy. Since it is estimated 1,000 people own EUkraine, changes need to be effected to spread the wealth around. This will be done, for the betterment of the EUkrainian citizen.
5 years from now, things will look a great deal better than today. Walk, don't run...
The people of Belarus and Kazakhstan are watching how things play out. Put on a good show...
"it is estimated 1,000 people own EUkraine" I wonder are they all dual-citizens?
And how many billions has Russia already given the Ukraine....gas, subsidies, loans, free trade...gas subsidies alone dwarf what the Empire has thrown in the ring
some of the money went into air fuel bombs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy7yNnQghs8
They'd be doing this to Americans if they didn't pass Obamacare
Tell me again how much went to the Border Patrol on the southern border to secure it from illegal invasion?
Oh yeah. Stupid question.
1.2 billion into the hands of their oligarchs 100k for the rest
Without a doubt.
Money VERY well spent - end all the USA entitlement programs, end income taxes, and send a big part of the savings to Ukraine in the form of heavy weapons. Also, gather up all the socialist entitlement parasites, stuff them into uniforms, and ship them to Ukraine where they can be made useful by finding land mines with their feet.
"The United States is firmly committed to supporting Ukraine as it works to establish security and stability, respond to humanitarian and reconstruction needs, conduct democratic elections..."
LOL
And let's not forget the cookies!
So since money is 'fungible' how much of this goes to paying back Russia the many billions of $$$s that Ukraine is already delinquent on?
"We are sending a team of experts to help the Ukrainian government to meet its energy needs this winter."
I guess by "experts" they mean Joe Biden Jr.??
They must have run out of police departments and schools to give all that surplus Iraq/Afganistan stuff to.
Also save costs by dropping it off on the way home from Afganistan. Airlifted stuff transits through Romania which is nearby.
That means the MIC can supply the US military with nice new kit to replace the S/H stuff that's not coming back.
This is the Army Surplus Store accessed by the front door, like the Russian one accessed from the back door. No doubt the quality of gear at the back door will increase as well.
Stupid Kiev Nazis swapped their gold for sandwiches with the New York Jew Nuland.
If less 50% is "siphoned off" by the politicians and oligarchs, I will be SURPRISED !!!! Everyone who helped seize and retain power for the post-coup Kiev government will be looking for "his cut".
There is an old saying in Ukraine: "Even the Russians blush at the extent and magnitude of the corruption within the Ukrainian government."
very well spent money. who is going to get the highest ROI?
Hunter Biden?