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Home / Ukraine-Russia / As the money dries up, lawmakers eye even more aid for Ukraine
Ukraine‑Russia, Europe and Eurasia, Russia, Ukraine

September 10, 2024

As the money dries up, lawmakers eye even more aid for Ukraine

Michael DiMino, the public policy manager for Defense Priorities who wrote a brief detailing how aid would not be a silver bullet for Ukraine success against Russia, told TAC that “aid alone is far less important than other factors like manpower, capacity to generate combat power, military leadership, intelligence, and national-level decision making.”

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