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According to several US media, the US president has decided to freeze the $ 400 million US military aid for Ukraine, a few days before a controversial phone interview with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
According to the Washington Post and the New York Times , the order came directly from Donald Trump. The president is reportedly asking his chief of staff to suspend about $ 400 million in planned military aid for Ukraine. Senior officials of the administration would have confirmed this information to the two dailies.
This decision to suspend military aid was taken a few days before a telephone conversation by Donald Trump with his Ukrainian counterpart. The US president has confirmed this: he spoke with Volodymyr Zelenskiy about an alleged corruption case involving Hunter Biden, the son of former vice president and Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
Hunter Biden on the Board of Burisma Holdings
In April 2014, while Joe Biden is still the vice president of Barack Obama, his son is named to the board of the gas company Burisma Holdings. The company operates in particular in Crimea, which has just been annexed by Russia. Donald Trump sees it as a possible corruption case, Burisma Holdings could seek to influence the Obama administration through Hunter Biden.
While describing the latter as " corrupt ", the US president says he has never put pressure on the Ukrainian government to harm his political rival. The Democratic opposition, it thinks the opposite. She suspects Donald Trump of pushing President Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden, using military aid as a lever.
► See also: Did Trump ask the Ukrainian President to investigate Biden's son?
Charges denied en bloc by Donald Trump. " I think it's ridiculous, it's a witch hunt ," he said on Tuesday (September 24th). This new affair provoked an outcry among the democratically elected, more and more numerous to want to launch a procedure of impeachment against the American president.