Ukraine aid groups cut services, scramble for cash after US funding shock


FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian rescuers appear next to new equipment, which was provide by United States Agency for International Development, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 17, 2023. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Photo

KYIV (Reuters) - Some 150 Ukrainian teenagers from northeastern areas near the frontlines of the war with Russia had already packed their bags to travel west for an educational retreat far from the shelling and fighting. Their plans were abruptly cancelled.

Tetiana Kovryga, head of a Ukrainian NGO called GoGlobal, said she had to suspend the trip for the youths from the Sumy and Kharkiv regions after President Donald Trump paused development assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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