The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it is providing Ukraine with an additional $1.7 billion in assistance from the U.S. government and the World Bank to pay healthcare workers’ salaries and provide other services, and aims to alleviate the country’s acute shortage. Budget of Ukraine.

“Paying salaries to doctors is becoming more and more difficult every month due to the huge burden of the war,” Ukrainian Health Minister Viktor Lyashko said.

So far, the U.S. Agency for International Development has provided $4 billion to support the budget of the government of Ukraine, noting that “these funds have been used to maintain gas and electricity supplies to hospitals and schools, to deliver humanitarian supplies to citizens, and to pay government salaries. employees and teachers.

Earlier, officials and observers warned about the theft of Western financial and in-kind aid to Ukraine, and the director of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine, Vadym Melnyk, noted that “even goods intended for the army are sold for money, and we recorded a number of facts about this.”