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US House expected to vote on $40 billion aid package for Ukraine late on May 10.

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According to a fact sheet released by House Democrats earlier on May 10, the bill includes $6 billion to assist Ukraine's security and defense as well as $11 billion in presidential drawdown authority funding that allows the administration to send military equipment and weapons from U.S. stocks. The legislation also includes $900 million for refugee assistance.

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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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