Analysis-US aid could buy Kyiv time, but Ukraine needs many more troops

By Tom Balmforth, Charlotte Bruneau KYIV/NEAR KUPIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -For the exhausted Ukrainian artillery gunners holding off Russian forces near the eastern town of Kupiansk, the U.S. aid package expected to finally pass this week is a lifeline and, potentially, a gamechanger, although that could take some time. “If they’d passed it (earlier), it would…

Related Keywords

Poland ,Czech Republic ,Washington ,United States ,Kramatorsk ,Donets Ka Oblast ,Ukraine ,Russia ,Kremlin ,Moskva ,Moscow ,Bakhmut ,Nizhegorodskaya Oblast ,Luhansk ,Luhans Ka Oblast ,London ,City Of ,United Kingdom ,Kyiv ,Kyyiv ,Misto ,Donbas ,Ukraine General ,Ukrainian ,Russian ,Ukrainians ,Russians ,Matthew Savill ,Andriy Yusov ,Konrad Muzyka ,Mike Collett White ,Tom Balmforth ,Volodymyr Zelenskiy ,Philippa Fletcher ,Andriy Zagorodnyuk ,Charlotte Bruneau ,Jonathan Landay ,Joe Biden ,Reuters ,Us Senate ,European Union ,President Joe Biden ,President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ,Chasiv Yar ,Kyiv Held Donbas ,