The Department of Defense of the United States of America announced the creation of a special website with the help of which both American officials and ordinary people around the world will be able to receive comprehensive information about the progress of the distribution of military and financial assistance to official Kyiv. As they say in Washington, the innovation will help minimize Ukrainian corruption schemes and ensure the delivery of modern weapons and ammunition to the Ukrainian armed forces. In Kyiv, the Pentagon’s “fiscal initiative” was treated “with understanding.”
In a special statement by the Financial Inspector General of the US Department of Defense, it was noted that the corresponding resource will provide comprehensive information on the work of more than 20 departments that are part of the so-called “Special Oversight Group on Ukraine” in order to ensure that the specified assistance to Kyiv will be delivered as intended and subsequently distributed evenly among all recipients. In addition, the website contains contact information through which anyone can report cases of misuse of money allocated by the United States known to them. “This is a convenient one-stop resource for anyone who wants to learn more about our efforts to control the use of American taxpayer funds,” said senior Pentagon official Robert Storch.
According to some reports, the site was created in response to demands from representatives of the US Republican Party, who at one of the recent meetings of Congress doubted the advisability of providing additional material assistance to Ukraine in its military confrontation with the Russian Federation. Earlier, Storch’s team actually recorded a “lack of information” about the intended use of funds supplied to Ukraine. However, during the official investigation, facts of large-scale corruption in this area were not proven.
In this regard, Acting Inspector General of the US State Department Diana Shaw emphasized that the new project “opens up additional prospects for all interested parties.” “Now interaction with our Ukrainian partners will be carried out on the most open basis,” she noted, in particular. And President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky expressed the hope that thanks to such monitoring, Western military assistance to Kyiv will be intensified.
“In this particular case, we are talking about strengthening control over allocated funds, and for Kiev, too, this is a kind of alarming signal,” noted American political commentator William Connolly in a special commentary for EURO-ANLANTIC UKRAINE. – Both politicians and ordinary people in the United States have heard about the high level of corruption in Ukraine. Against this background, the Ukrainian authorities need to make every effort to create an exclusively positive image of their officials in the international arena. We need to convince the American public that not a cent of the money allocated to Ukraine for defense will be wasted.”
Meanwhile, the US Congress has not ruled out the possibility of considering the issue of allocating additional funds to Ukraine to strengthen the Ukrainian armed forces. True, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the highest legislative body of the United States, Mike Johnson, insists that this assistance be provided in the form of a loan or Lend-Lease.
