The US does not have any confirmation that the budget or defense support of Ukraine could be somehow affected by corrupt actions in this state.

The coordinator of the National Security Council of the White House, John Kirby, announced this at a briefing on January 25.

"Budget aid (for Ukraine - ed.) is channeled through the World Bank. And we are confident in this process," the White House representative noted.

In this way, he answered the journalists' question whether the American administration is confident that corruption in Ukraine has not affected foreign budget support.

"We obviously

share President Zelenskyi's concern

about these corruption allegations, and he obviously takes it seriously. It's important. We'll certainly give him an opportunity to get through it," Kirby added.

He emphasized that corruption in Ukraine did not affect the financial and military aid provided by the United States.

"

We have not seen any signs that our budget aid has been affected

by any manifestation of corruption in Ukraine, and I would go even further to say the same about aid in the field of security - weapons and systems," - said a representative of the White House.

He also reported that there were no signs that anything sent to Ukraine by the US "could have fallen into the wrong hands or been misused."

What kind of corruption are we talking about?

We will remind you that the ZN.UA publication published an article about the fact that the officials of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine seem to buy food for the Ukrainian military twice or three times more expensive than in stores.

In particular, it was about the purchase of eggs at UAH 17 per piece.

Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov called the accusations of abuse manipulation and promised to check everything in detail.

At the same time, NABU reported that they had started investigating the relevant facts even before they were published in the mass media.

After this scandal, Deputy Minister of Defense Vyacheslav Shapovalov resigned.

Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, director of the procurement department of the Ministry of Defense, also lost his position.

Subsequently, Reznikov said that he had answered all the questions about the scandal to the members of the People's Deputies of the Parliamentary Committee on Anti-corruption Policy.

In addition, the minister announced a food reform in the Armed Forces.

We would like to add that, in addition, the deputy head of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Vasyl Lozynskyi, became involved in the case of embezzlement of budget funds for the purchase of generators.

NABU employees caught Lozynsky taking a $400,000 bribe.

He was dismissed from his post and placed under 24-hour house arrest.

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