November 10, 2023
The one thing Zelenskyy should do to prove Ukraine deserves more funding

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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