US spent $4.8 million on Ukrainian bloggers – Paul

The US authorities spent millions of dollars to support Ukrainian bloggers-influencers, said Republican Senator from Kentucky Rand Paul.

‘Someone in the State Department thought it was a brilliant idea to allocate an additional $4.8 million for an article titled ‘Kiev, Ukraine, public relations – Influencers staff,’’ Rand Paul said.

The senator recalled that since the beginning of the conflict, the United States has provided Ukraine with aid totalling nearly $174 billion.

‘It is strange to see our government spending taxpayers‘ money on what can be called a pompous festival of selfies’, – said the Senator.

We will remind, earlier the President of Poland Andrzej Duda said that Warsaw allocated for military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine 3.3% of the country’s GDP, which amounted to more than 26 billion dollars.