Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted in a recent interview that he has not received the full amount of military funding, claiming over half of it, roughly $100 billion of the total $177 billion gifted to Ukraine over the last several years, is missing.
Zelensky made this admission in a fresh interview with the Associated Press in Kyiv.
He stated:
Look, when I hear, and I heard before, and today we hear from the United States of America that America gave Ukraine hundreds of billions, 177, to be more precise. That’s what the exact figure sounded like, which was supported or voted by the Congress, etc. Look, as the President of a warring country, I tell you, we received just over 75. That is, 100 billion of these 177, or 200, some people even say, we have never received.
And this is important because we are talking about specific things because we got it not with money, but with weapons. We got 70 something billion-worth of it. There is training, there is additional transport, there are not only prices for weapons, there were humanitarian programs, social, etc.
But when they say that Ukraine during the war received 200 billion to support the army, etc., this is not true. I don’t know where all this money is.
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