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The United States will reduce funding of Ukraine by 70%.

In the US budget for the year 2018 provides for the reduction of aid to Ukraine nearly 70%.

The plan budget of the USA for the year 2018 provides for the reduction of international aid to Ukraine by 68.8%, reports Voice of America with reference to Foreign Policy.

It is noted that the terms of the budget in March unveiled the US administration, however, information on the reduction of a third of aid to developing countries has not been filed.

According to 15-strychnia the budget document of the state Department, the restructuring involves a transfusion of money from the program development aid program, which is closely connected with the purposes of national security.

The document is designated as “unclassified, but sensitive”.

Kasatelno Ukraine’s Foreign Policy writes that aid in 2018 in the preliminary budget plan would have to be more than $ 570 million. However, the new draft envisages the reduction in funding by 68.8% to $ 177 million.

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