KYIV, Ukraine -- Senior Ukrainian officials said they were blindsided over the summer when they heard the United States would withhold security assistance to the country."It was a total surprise," said Pavlo A. Klimkin, who was Ukraine's foreign minister in August when he learned of the
KYIV, Ukraine — Senior Ukrainian officials said they were blindsided over the summer when they heard the United States would withhold security assistance to the country.
Biden oversaw U.S. policy toward Ukraine in the Obama administration when his son served on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company. Allies of Trump have pointed to a conflict of interest, and asked Ukraine to investigate Biden’s request in 2016 that Ukraine’s president at the time, Petro O. Poroshenko, dismiss a prosecutor who had investigated the gas company.
U.S. military assistance for Ukraine had flowed unobstructed into the country since 2014, the year Russia annexed Crimea and fomented a war in two eastern provinces. The aid had always arrived in carefully choreographed shipments planned months in advance. “I never heard a discussion about meeting these conditions,” he said. “I’m not aware of any indication that something could have gone wrong.”If the decision to suspend the aid was tied to a request by Trump for a politically motivated investigation, that “represents a fundamental challenge and problem for Ukraine,” Klimkin said, possibly threatening what had been bipartisan support in Congress for military assistance to the country.
Another official who learned of the hold on aid like a bolt from the blue was Oleh Shevchuk, who was deputy minister of defense in charge of logistics and oversaw the aid shipments until this month. He also said he learned of it through media reports.
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