Has US military aid come in time for President Zelensky?
Russia has recently made key breakthroughs in Ukraine so the race is on to get the new US military aid to the country’s front line. Has it come in time for President Zelensky?
The war in Ukraine has reached a pivotal moment.
After months of an apparent stalling on the frontlines, Russia has recently made a series of critical breakthroughs.
Now the race is on for Kyiv to get newly approved military aid to the front line before Russian forces attack Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv.
The 60 billion dollar bill passed in America’s congress at the end of April allows for Ukraine to push back against Russian forces and prepare to mount an offensive next year.
But a gap in the supply of missiles has left Kyiv dangerously exposed and huge questions remain about how Ukraine’s President will act next.
So, on this week’s Inquiry, we’re asking ‘Has US military aid come in time for President Zelensky?’
Contributors:
Gustav Gressel, senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Berlin office. Max Bergmann, Director, Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and Stuart Center, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in the US. Dr Marina Miron, post-doctoral researcher in the War Studies Department and an honorary researcher at the Centre for Military Ethics and the Department of Defence Studies, Kings College, London. Professor Olga Onuch, Professor (Chair) in Comparative and Ukrainian Politics at the University of Manchester, UK.
Presenter: Tanya Beckett
Producer: Lorna Reader
Researcher: Matt Toulson
Production Co-ordinator: Liam Morrey
Image credit: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service via Reuters via 91Èȱ¬ Images
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