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Home / Ukraine-Russia / The one thing Zelenskyy should do to prove Ukraine deserves more funding
Ukraine‑Russia, Europe and Eurasia, Ukraine

November 10, 2023

The one thing Zelenskyy should do to prove Ukraine deserves more funding

By Anthony Constantini

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the latter has received billions of dollars of aid, with over $113 billion coming from the United States alone. President Joe Biden recently asked Congress to approve another $60 billion, and it’s almost certain that Ukraine will request more U.S. aid in the future.

When making these asks, Ukraine’s government has portrayed the defense of their homeland as a defense of global democracy. Aid is, in the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, “not charity,” but is “an investment in the global … democracy that we handled in the most responsible way.”

However, in the midst of defending democracy, their government seems to have forgotten one of its central tenets: holding elections.

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