This might or might not have been a line item in a meeting for the politburo, but it would have come across their desk in one way or another. Maybe in a form of

This might or might not have been a line item in a meeting for the politburo, but it would have come across their desk in one way or another. Maybe in a form of item in a list for a bigger strategy (authorize those 10000 organizations to support Ukraine etc.). The foreign ministry spokeman is the one who announced it after all