Mykhailo received a flurry of messages when US President Donald Trump suspended international aid, a move that endangered the NGO where he works helping Ukrainian veterans.

In January, Trump ordered the suspension of foreign assistance. Then on Friday he called for the closure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which distributes US humanitarian aid globally.

His billionaire ally Elon Musk boasted Trump's team was putting USAID "through the wood-chipper".

The move sent shock waves through Ukraine, USAID's largest beneficiary having received nearly $38 billion in donations since Russia invaded in February 2022.

"When the aid was suspended, people wrote to me saying: 'Where are we meant to go?'" said Mykhailo, a case manager at the Veteran Hub NGO. He himself has used the psychological support services it offers former combatants and their families.

He spoke to AFP in the city of Vinnytsia, 250 kilometres (155 miles) from Kyiv, at a regional office of the Veteran Hub.

One veteran was slumped on a chair, his face sombre, as he waited for an appointment with a psychologist helping him with the........

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