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Biden to sign lend-lease for Ukraine into law on May 9.

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White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki confirmed it on May 6, while adding that U.S. President Joe Biden would take part in a G7 video meeting on May 9. Under the lend-lease law, Ukraine will be able to get military equipment faster, bypassing bureaucratic procedures. The name echoes the World War II-era measure that allowed the U.S. to quickly resupply the Allies in the fight against Nazi Germany.

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Russia failed to break Ukraine’s army on the battlefield, and now it’s trying to do it through a peace plan that would cap Ukraine’s forces at 600,000. Some argue that Ukraine would shrink its army — currently estimated at about 800,000 — after the war anyway.

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