OREANDA-NEWS. The White House administration and budgetary administration at the end of August 2019 received a direct order from U.S. President Donald Trump to again delay the allocation of $ 391 million in military assistance to Ukraine, the Just Security online forum, which operates at the University of New York Law School, announced this Thursday. Positions itself as an association of experts in public administration, lawyers and researchers.

The forum outlined the contents of the official e-mail correspondence between employee Michael Duffy and Assistant Secretary of Defense Elaine McCasker, who is in charge of financial affairs. The censored correspondence was published on December 12 and December 20 last year on the basis of a court decision that upheld the demand for Center for Public Integrity, based in the US capital. Just Security explains that it received copies of correspondence that were not edited by censors.

According to the publication, Trump had questions about the appropriateness of financial and military support for Ukraine on June 19 last year. McKasker, responding to inquiries from the White House on June 25 of that year, wrote that at that time, "only $ 7 million" was spent out of the $ 250 million intended for Kiev.