U.S. Support and Reforms in Ukraine

And U.S. advisors serve in almost a dozen Ukrainian

ministries and

localities, helping to deliver services, eliminate fraud and

abru-abuse, improve tax collection, and modernize Ukrainian

institutions. With U.S. help, newly vetted and trained police

officers are patrolling the cities, uh, the streets of eighteen Ukrainian

cities. In courtrooms across Ukraine, free legal aid

attorneys funded by the U.S. have won two-thirds of all the acquittals

in

the countries.

Um, Treasury and State Department advisors

have helped Ukraine shutter over

sixty failed banks and protected the assets of depositors.

And since there can be no reform in Ukraine without security,

over two hundred and

sixty-six million dollars of our support has been in the security sector,

training twelve hundred soldiers and seven hundred

and fifty Ukrainian National

Guard personnel, and supplying life-saving gear.

In FY sixteen, we are continuing that training and equipment of more of

Ukraine's border guards, military, and coast guard.