The Pentagon notified the U.S. Congress that Ukraine had made progress in the fight against corruption, which allegedly allows the US to supply Ukraine with military equipment at $ 125 million. This was announced on Wednesday evening broadcasting company si-EN-EN referring to sources in the Ministry of defense and the U.S. Congress.
According to them, U.S. law necessarily involves the existence of evidence that the authorities in Kiev "made progress in the fight against corruption by increasing transparency and social control", in order to supply military equipment to Ukraine could be approved. While si-EN-EN notes that the Pentagon "do not comment on [the information] on the tranche of military aid, is under consideration by the Congress".
In early March, the broadcaster said that the Congress is informed about the plans of the Ministry of defense to supply Ukraine protivoallergennye radar stations, patrol boats and other equipment for $ 125 million. According to its sources, it is about half of the new tranche of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 250 million. Terms of possible deliveries was not specified.
The theme of the freeze of the administration of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine is linked with the failed attempt of the Democrats in Congress to remove Donald trump from the post of President. In February, trump announced the resignation of Deputy Minister of defense for political Affairs John Ore. Bloomberg recalled that in may 2019 Ores, speaking at the hearings in Congress, said that Ukraine needs to allocate 250 million dollars of military aid because she had reached sufficient success in the fight against corruption. Later, however, the administration of the tramp froze aid, referring to the concerns about the lack of progress in this area.
A major scandal because of allegations of providing trump during a telephone conversation in July 2019 pressure on President Vladimir Zelensky in order to encourage Kiev to help the head of the Washington administration to be re-elected for a second term in 2020 began in September 2019. How do you think the political opponents of the us leader, Republican trump allegedly tried to convince Zelensky to start an investigation of the son of his political opponent Joseph Biden hunter in exchange for the provision of financial and military assistance to Kiev.
This was the reason to start impeachment proceedings against trump. The Senate, where Republicans have a majority, 5 February acquitted the President on both articles of accusation.
