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January 30, 2025 | 08:17 UTC
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Ukraine Parliament Seeks Alternatives to USAID Funding

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The Ukrainian parliament is seeking alternatives to USAID funding as a potential pause could last up to six months, according to a report by Ukraine’s Parliamentary Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy dated January 29.

This comes after US President Donald Trump froze US foreign aid for 90 days to conduct a review of humanitarian, development, and security programs on January 20.

The committee has begun consultations with European partners to secure funding for projects previously supported by USAID.

President Zelenskyy reported on Telegram, “There are many projects. We will determine which ones are critical and need immediate solutions. We can provide part of this funding through our state finances, and we will discuss some of them with Europeans and Americans. These include many areas – from communications and digitalization to support for veterans, schools, hospitals, and reconstruction.”

The Ukrainian committee emphasized that USAID’s assistance remains critical to Ukraine’s democratic development and expressed hope for a solution in coordination with the government and sectors affected by the pause.

On January 28, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that funding for some humanitarian programs would temporarily resume if they were “core lifesaving medicine, medical services, food, shelter, and subsistence assistance, as well as supplies and reasonable administrative costs as necessary to deliver such assistance.”

Despite this partial unfreezing, many humanitarian organizations remain uncertain about whether they can continue operations. Ukraine’s Minister of Social Policy, Oksana Zholnovych, stated that authorities are still determining which contractors will have their funding stopped.

Bradley Bowman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies emphasized the importance of US support, adding, “But I think if our European allies are reading the political moment in the United States well, they better be moving, I say quickly, to try to pick up most or all of that burden.”

Earlier in 2024, Ukraine’s defense sector received over $1.5 billion from international partners to boost arms production, Ukrainian Minister of Strategic Industries Herman Smetanin said on January 27.

The funding came from nine countries—Denmark, Canada, the Netherlands, Lithuania, the UK, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and the US, along with the EU, using national budgets and frozen Russian assets.
 

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