Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that his country has only received around $76 billion in aid from the United States despite America authorising around $175 billion to support the war-torn country. In an interview with the Associated Press published over the weekend, President Zelensky said he doesn’t know where most of the money the United States allocated under the Biden administration to Ukraine has gone. An analysis by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) found last year that nearly 70 per cent of Ukraine aid was spent in America, including replenishing U.S. weapons stockpiles, purchasing weapons to be sent to Ukraine, and funding Defence Department accounts. There have been long-held concerns in Washington over sending billions of dollars to Ukraine given its issues with graft. In 2023, Transparency International ranked Ukraine as the second-most corrupt European nation, only behind Russia, with a score of 33 out of 100. The Oversight Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has found that “Ukrainian government officials allegedly engaged in bribery, used government vehicles for personal use, and purchased inflated food supplies for Ukrainian forces.” Despite previously downplaying the widespread corruption in the former Soviet state, the New York Times reported in 2023 that unnamed Ukrainian officials admitted U.S. taxpayer money intended for military contracts had “failed to produce weaponry or ammunition and that some money has vanished.” British government estimates have claimed that nearly a tenth of all English farmland will need to be ‘rewilded’ by 2050 to hit green agenda targets. Projections in the government’s “land use framework” said that approximately 760,000 hectares, or around nine per cent of agricultural land in England, will need to “change away from agricultural land for environmental and climate benefits,” the Financial Times reports. The move could see the UK become even more reliant on foreign imports to meet its food supply needs, with the country already importing around 40 per cent of its food. Farmers have also expressed outrage over the left-wing Labour government’s plans to remove the inheritance tax exemption from many farms. Under the scheme, farms valued at at least £1 million (£2 million for married couples) will face a 20 per cent inheritance tax by 2026. As many farmers operate on a thin profit margin, many have warned that the tax raid will force families to sell off parts of their land just to pay the tax when their parents die. This has led to large-scale protests throughout the country in recent months.
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