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US diplomats have requested an emergency discount from a 90-day suspension on foreign assistance for Ukraine-related programs, and according to documents seen by people acquired by the Financial Times, and the topic of the subject “Stop” by the Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
According to national security concerns, senior diplomats from the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs have asked Rubio to exclude the work of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Ukraine from effective guidelines. Immediately after Friday.
“We don’t know if this request will be approved at the moment – completely or partially – but there is a positive signal outside Washington,” said an email sent by USAID staff of Ukraine Saturday that was reviewed by FT. .
Disobeying Rubio’s order, Ukraine’s USAID has temporarily stopped the “Stop Work” order until it can provide precision for its partners, according to email and some of those partners’ agencies.
The company has asked employees to “evaluate programs and find ways to more clearly support the Secretary of State’s instructions to make the United States safe, strong and more prosperous.”
But by Saturday evening in Kiev, some organizations began to receive an order to “stop work”.
An order shared by a company with FT is ordered that the contractor was rewarded to “stop working under the USAID/Ukraine Agreement/Task order”.
The order states that the contractor will not resume work. . . Until this stop work order has been canceled, the contractor officer does not get a notice in writing.
The US embassy in the State Department, USAID and Kiev did not respond to the request for comments.
An internal cable sent to State Department and USAID on Friday, obtained by FT, Rubio has directed that all new foreign aid will be suspended. Contractors and grant officers were instructed to “issue orders to stop working immediately … until the Secretary determined, after reviewing.”
The review is expected to take up to 85 days, hundreds of US foreign aid agreements have given up the fate of the agreement – which is worth more than $ 70 billion in the 2022 fiscal.
Ukraine officials and NGO workers, where Russia’s all -time war will enter the fourth year in the next month, warned that President Donald Trump’s new Secretary of State was in the midst of a program like a support for school and hospital, as well as economic and fuel development attempts were threatened .
A program director of an NGO working in Kiev says that suspending funds can be a “disaster” for their group and Ukraine.
There are some exceptions to the Rubio order, including “approved waits” and foreign emergency food assistance for military financing in Israel and Egypt. However, the cable did not mention the concession for Ukraine that depends on Washington for military assistance in the war against Russia.
Kiev’s State Department and the US Embassy did not respond to the request of the new military assistance for Ukraine for Ukraine.
However, a Ukraine government official confirmed the matter to the FT that US military support was not subject to the suspected order. “Military assistance in Ukraine remain intact,” the officer said. “At least until now, and this is definitely not part of this 90-day fridge.”
According to the State Department, Russia has provided $ 65.9 billion military assistance to Kiev since the start of the Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Statistics.
Trump was skeptical of US military assistance in Ukraine and laughed at President Volodimir Jelnsky as “the world’s greatest salesman” for his attempt to secure billions of dollars worth of weapons and ammunition.
Trump said this week that he would like to make a “deal” between Kiev and Moscow to end the war. He added that Zelnsky’s “enough” was “enough” and he threatened President Vladimir Putin to further sanctions unless he discussed a ceasefire.
