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The State Department this week terminated a U.S. Agency for International Development initiative that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore Ukraine's energy grid from attacks by the Russian military, according to two USAID officials working on the agency’s Ukraine mission.

Power outages have been applied overnight in some regions of Ukraine due to the attacks on energy facilities. The country’s systems have sustained near-constant impact throughout the course of the three-year war.

“It significantly undercuts this administration’s abilities to negotiate on the ceasefire, and it’d signal to Russia that we don’t care about Ukraine or our past investments,” one USAID official involved in the Ukraine mission told NBC News.

The official continued: “Russia is fighting a two-pronged war in Ukraine: A military one but also an economic one. They’re trying to crush the economy, but USAID has played a central role in helping it be resilient, [including] shoring up the energy grid.

We’ve provided vast amount of support to the Ukrainian government to avoid a macro economic crisis.”

In addition to ending the Ukraine Energy Security Project, USAID is also dramatically downsizing its presence in Ukraine.

Before the Trump administration’s latest moves, 64 American government employees and contractors were serving on the ground in Ukraine for the agency. Just eight of those personnel are slated to remain on the ground in the war-torn country after the Trump administration placed its remaining global workforce on administrative leave and ordered those workers not deemed “critical” to return to the U.S.

The two officials warned that USAID withdrawing from Ukraine would leave its energy grid vulnerable in the heart of the winter as it endures assaults from further Russian missiles.

A State Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Both officials also asserted that USAID plays the foremost role in ensuring financial aid provided to Ukraine is spent for its intended purposes.

Based on a document obtained by NBC News, the State Department has also ordered the termination of a program focused on “financial sector reform activity.”

“We won’t have the eyes on where this money has gone over the last few years,” one of the officials said.

USAID’s Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, which oversees the Ukraine mission, has 115 staff based in Washington, D.C. The bureau’s staff has been told that number would be pared down to 29 employees remaining active, according to the two USAID officials.

Source: NBCnews

The speed with which Zelenskyy congratulated Biden when he was fraudulently declared winner over Trump in 2019 despite all the support Trump gave him got my attention. He was among the first two world leaders to congratulate Biden.

Funny enough I see the down fall of the United States in the nearest future and Donald Trump has initiated it

Noted.

The village idiot has struck again.
Putin's puppet is a delusional clown.

Pray for Ukraine.

Dia wahala, dia case

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Maybe EU should take over 😂

Hahahah

The problem with injustice is, if you can get away with it, it means someday someone too can get away with doing it to you.

No problem

See Putin will annex Ukraine and give those rare earth minerals to us Zelenskyy is a comic

atiku4President:
The speed with which Zelenskyy congratulated Biden when he was fraudulently declared winner over Trump in 2016 despite all the support Trump gave him got my attention. He was among the first two world leaders to congratulate Biden.

Trump gave all the support to Ukraine in his first term? And Zelensky should have waited days to congratulate the election winner after the declaration of results?

We knew it!

Choose your friend wisely..

Trump haters go cry us a river today...

So Trump is following through with his threat already.

D best thing for zelensky now is to resign and run away from the country.... USA and fighting unnecessary wars... That's how they invaded Vietnam and lost over 60k soldiers and left empty handed.... See Ukraine and Russia wahala again.... Wetin concern USA?

Lol

Let the tears start pouring in Trump haters.

Too bad for Ukraine.

atiku4President:
The speed with which Zelenskyy congratulated Biden when he was fraudulently declared winner over Trump in 2016 despite all the support Trump gave him got my attention. He was among the first two world leaders to congratulate Biden.

Stop pulling the guy down. Everyone was taken a bark as to Who to congratulate as at then. It took Russia and Israel forever to know who to congratulate . you can't throw that jab at the man now. He stood firm as a hero for his country .

Trump is being foolish on this Ukraine matter

Hmmm

United state are so pained with this war cos they end up wasting $350billion for nothing that's y trump is so pained, he even called Biden stupid president out of anger. The war is tactically over and Putin is the winner.

dFuture224:
Maybe EU should take over 😂

May be in the form of insurgency (what some might interpret as terrorism). No USA support for another 5 years but they can keep Russia busy for 5 years.

The fight is not even necessary, Putin is more powerful than you. Use this window and apologize. Simple

atiku4President:
The speed with which Zelenskyy congratulated Biden when he was fraudulently declared winner over Trump in 2016 despite all the support Trump gave him got my attention. He was among the first two world leaders to congratulate Biden.

He will now hear it. Zelensky in even said yesterday, that from the beginning of the war they have been all alone: he sounds like an ingrate yesterday

Trump dey mess up on international politics

atiku4President:
The speed with which Zelenskyy congratulated Biden when he was fraudulently declared winner over Trump in 2016 despite all the support Trump gave him got my attention. He was among the first two world leaders to congratulate Biden.

Which 2016 ??