Ukraine has rejected the US proposal to set up a $500bn compensation fund that would have provided for the return of funds for military aid provided by the USA during the armed conflict, the Bloomberg news agency has reported. This was reported by the Bloomberg agency.
US President Donald Trump said that ‘the United States has allocated $350bn’ and is now ‘trying to return the money previously spent on aid to Ukraine and will achieve this’.
He noted that Europe gave Ukraine the money with the condition of its further return and hopes to get ‘everything we can’ from Ukraine in exchange for the funds spent.
‘We gave money in the form of nothing. So I want them to give us something for all the money we have invested. And I’m going to try to get a settlement of the war. And I’m going to try to bring an end to all these deaths. So we’re asking for rare metals and oil and whatever we can get. <…> So we’ll get our money back. We’ll get our money back, because it’s not fair. It’s just not fair,’ Trump added.
According to the agency, Ukraine estimates the cost of US military aid at $90bn.
‘The fund will reimburse the US for all the costs of support provided since the beginning of the conflict. But in Kiev argue that the real amount of aid is less than the declared five times and is only 90 billion’, – writes Bloomberg.
We shall remind you that earlier the New York Times reported that the new version of the resources agreement obliges Ukraine to give the USA half of the revenues from resource extraction, ports and other infrastructure.
