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24 July 2023

How Ukraine Can Avoid Afghanistan’s Aid Sinkhole

Lynne O’Donnell

Samantha Power, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), went to Kyiv this week to hand over another tranche of American aid to help rebuild Ukraine as Russia’s aggression continues to take a terrible toll on its people and infrastructure. The latest batch of American assistance totaled more than $500 million, mainly to help civilian victims of the war—and there were fresh ones almost immediately, as Russia scuppered a deal to let Ukraine export grain and then bombed its biggest port for good measure.

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