Leader Barack Obama ordered U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry to take additional measures to help $ 123 million ten countries, and among them Ukraine, said on Tuesday the press service of the White house.
How it is expected to distribute aid and for what purpose it will go, not reported. Besides Ukraine, the list of potential beneficiaries - Tunisia, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Nigeria, Albania and Vietnam. Funds are available due to the law of the United States from 1961 On assistance to foreign governments.
Since the beginning of the fall in Ukraine and up to the present time, the U.S. has provided to the government of Ukraine more than 290 million dollars, and among them 116 million dollars in military aid, including weapons.
Kyiv authorities Since April of conduct in the East of Ukraine military operation directed against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat of residents of Donbas. According to the UN on 21 September, the victims of the conflict were in excess of 3, 2 thousands of civilians, more than 8 thousand were injured body. About the development of the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine read
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