Data from the working group showed that of the $182.8 billion appropriated as of Dec. 31, $83.4 billion was disbursed, and a total of $96.6 billion has either been obligated and not disbursed or appropriated but not yet obligated. Further, $2.7 billion has expired, meaning those funds are no longer available for obligation.
"I don't think the question is that all these billions disappeared in Ukraine due to corruption," Budanov told "American Agenda" through an interpreter from Kyiv in an interview with Newsmax correspondent Zach Anders. "The issue is deeper here. We need to figure out where this money went and where it settled. And it may turn out that it's not just about Ukraine."
"When they talk about corruption, well, listen, it exists everywhere. Every country fights against it. If every country fights against it, that, at the very least, means that it exists in every country."