Sergey Stankevich
The next flashpoint is the Report on US goals in supporting Ukraine in the military conflict with Russia and on the strategy to ensure American interests. In April 2024, the US Congress voted to provide Ukraine with $61 billion in military aid.
At the same time, a special amendment to the law required the US President to submit the said report to Congress no later than 40 days, that is, before the beginning of June. The Biden administration violated the established deadline. The report was received only in September. The text is classified.
After reviewing the text, the Republican leaders in the House of Representatives were apparently shocked by its content. Now they are demanding that the report be declassified and published. If not entirely, then at least the conceptual strategic part.
“The entire Congress and the American people deserve to understand how their hard-earned tax dollars are being spent,” the chairmen of the House Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, Intelligence, Appropriations and other congressional committees said in a joint statement.
Failure to publish could be a pretext for blocking new aid to Ukraine in the fiscal year beginning October 1.
Alexander Palladin
Lucy Dickerson
Vladimir Golstein
