{"id":31896,"date":"2025-01-22T19:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?p=31896"},"modified":"2025-01-22T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:51:10","slug":"trumps-aid-freeze-leaves-weapons-flowing-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/trumps-aid-freeze-leaves-weapons-flowing-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s aid freeze leaves weapons flowing to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump froze all foreign aid for 90 days, but Kyiv may dodge the worst of that action. Other aid flows were secured before Trump became president, but reconstruction aid may be affected by the freeze.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That harms Ukraine as it includes initiatives like restoring bombed energy facilities and demining, said Maksym Samoiliuk, a monetary and fiscal policy expert at the Centre for Economic Strategy, a Kyiv-based think tank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">USAID also finances Ukrainian civil society and independent journalists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe question is how exactly this decree will be implemented and whether the previous Biden administration was preparing for such a development and did not transfer funds in advance, for example,\u201d Samoiliuk said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-foreign-aid-freeze-war-in-ukraine-weapons\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLITICO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Other news from CES experts via <\/i><a href=\"\/?cat_ID=187\"><i>the link<\/i><\/a><i>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump froze all foreign aid for 90 days, but Kyiv may dodge the worst of that action. Other aid flows were secured before Trump became president, but reconstruction aid may be affected by the freeze. That harms Ukraine as it includes initiatives like restoring bombed energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"experts":[462],"news_type":[139],"class_list":["post-31896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-in-the-media-en","experts-maksym-samoiliuk-en","news_type-we-are-in-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31899,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31896\/revisions\/31899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31896"},{"taxonomy":"experts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/experts?post=31896"},{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=31896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}