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Ukraine’s $61 Billion Question

For a while, it was easy to blame a dysfunctional Washington for Ukraine’s problems on the battlefield. Now that the supplemental is done and the aid is once again going out the door, the ball is in Ukraine’s court.

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The aid package passed by Congress should last Ukraine through the end of 2024—but then again, it will have to. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
Julia Ioffe
April 30, 2024

A broken clock is right twice a day, and last week, after seven months of the Biden administration predictions, Congress finally got its act together and passed the Ukraine supplemental. Now, $61 billion in urgently needed aid is on its way to Kyiv, including munitions to push back the advancing Russian military and intercept the Russian missiles and Iranian drones raining down on Ukrainian cities. The Pentagon has had a lot of this equipment staged in Poland, ready to go the minute the supplemental package was signed into law. The question now is whether it will be enough.