Staff return to their work at a regional office of the Veteran Hub of Vinnytsia, 250 km from Kyiv, after being forced to close for a week when US President Donald Trump ordered the closure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which distributes US humanitarian aid globally. The hub was able to reopen with the help of local funding after staff quickly took to social media to publicise the consequences of the aid freeze.
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00:00You look at USAID, that's a, that's a fraud, the whole thing is a fraud.
00:27Very little, very little being put to good use.
00:31Every single line that I look at in terms of events and transactions is either corrupt
00:40Who is the iPhone's wife?
00:42Ah, I'll find out.
01:00And without this, I don't know, many veterans drink alcohol, for example.
01:07They create scandals in families.
01:09They don't know what this scandal is for, but they create it.
01:13They don't know the nature of this scandal.
01:15They don't know who to talk to, who to be with, how to be with like-minded people, because they don't exist.
01:36One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
01:51It's a family.
01:53Veteran Hub is a family.
01:55Each member of the family performs a certain function or can recommend something that can help a veteran.
02:03It's a big ball of connections, you know, and interactions that are constantly working.
02:10And it's been almost a year.
02:12And here, if these connections are broken, then each link is like, oh, damn, like, bullshit.
02:19What's next?
02:33Mm-hmm.