The United States has presented its allies with a long-term civilian financing plan, i.e. not for military spending, but for the operation of infrastructure, healthcare, and education, according to Telex, based on Sunday's Bloomberg article. According to the plan, the USA undertakes aid worth 1.5 billion dollars per month, but also requests the same amount of support from its European allies.
They added: according to the calculations of the International Monetary Fund
Ukraine would need $5 billion a month
for the performance of basic state tasks and the operation of the economy - in comparison, according to Minister of Finance Serhii Marchenko, after the 4.7 billion dollars in August, only 2 billion dollars of support flowed into the Kyiv state coffers in September, they write.
They emphasized: according to Bloomberg's government sources, the Biden administration is lobbying hard for the European Union to fulfill its commitments more decisively (the subsidies actually paid out are billions short of the promised amounts, they write). They reminded me: the EU decided on 9 billion euros in aid in the summer, but the form of disbursement of 3 billion is still being debated, 5 billion is in the process of being disbursed, and only 1 billion was actually paid out.
In addition to the new sanctions, the agenda of the EU summit to be held in the Czech Republic at the beginning of October includes, they add, that
in the year 2023, the EU allocates a total of 38 billion dollars for Ukraine from the EU budget.
Speaking to Bloomberg, some of the EU diplomats are "horribly frustrated" by the sluggishness of EU decision-making, and they claim that with the approach of winter and the increase of tangible signs of the energy crisis, "some member states" have begun to postpone the conclusion of controversial cases even more, they write.
Source: Mandarin
Photo: MTI/EPA/Ukrainian Presidential Press Office
