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Eugene

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Wed Apr 17, 2024, 02:13 PM Apr 2024

Ukraine was in trouble already -- now it openly admits it's on track to lose

Source: Insider

Ukraine was in trouble already — now it openly admits it's on track to lose

Tom Porter,Mia Jankowicz
Wed, April 17, 2024 at 11:14 AM EDT·8 min read

Ukraine's chances of victory in its two-year battle to repel Russia's brutal invasion appear to be fading.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine's president, is warning with increasing urgency that his country could lose the war if it doesn't get $60 billion in US aid that Republicans in Congress are refusing to release.

"Can we hold our ground? No," Zelenskyy recently told PBS of Ukraine's prospects should it not get the funding.

Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, was just as blunt in a recent interview.

"Give us the damn Patriots," he told Politico in March, ...

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-trouble-already-mdash-now-151430041.html

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Ukraine was in trouble already -- now it openly admits it's on track to lose (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2024 OP
Thanks to trump and the GOP Turbineguy Apr 2024 #1
Hard to hate republicans more, but I find it is possible. Biophilic Apr 2024 #2
If we let that happen, we deserve what happens to us. onecaliberal Apr 2024 #3

Biophilic

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2. Hard to hate republicans more, but I find it is possible.
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 02:31 PM
Apr 2024

They play their stupid games for Putin while an entire nation is destroyed. There just isn’t anything one can say. Thanks to trump and the gop the country I believed in and was mostly proud of is gone.

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