With Only Two Months Left, What Are Biden’s Options for Ukraine?

With little more than two months left in the White House, Joe Biden is running out of time to expedite the delivery of funds and weaponry needed to ensure Ukraine can stay in the fight against the Russian invasion.

The White House is transferring weapons and up to $6bn (£4.6bn) in remaining aid as quickly as possible to Ukraine while advocates for Kyiv are calling on the White House to repeal restrictions on long-range weaponry and find other sources of funding the war before Donald Trump enters office in January.

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Senior US and European officials had made efforts to “Trump-proof” much of the support for Ukraine, moving the authority for deliveries of weapons to Kyiv to Nato in advance of a potential Trump presidency.

“If Trump, in fact, cuts off military aid to Ukraine, the current assistance package only runs to the end of this calendar year exactly, and the Ukrainians can’t fight adequately absent US military support,” said Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Centre for a New American Security, a thinktank. “And we saw this at the beginning of this year, during that interregnum between packages, the Europeans can’t fill the gaps. The Ukrainians can’t fill all the gaps.

“So if he does do that, then that completely changes the dynamic on the ground, and therefore what the outcome might be,” he said.

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