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Commentary: The war in Ukraine demands a single-minded focus

People look at a fire after a missile strike in Kyiv on Jan. 2, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Earlier this month, the Pentagon made a statement regarding U.S. aid to Ukraine: It is out of money. Or, as Pentagon spokesman U.S. Air Force Major Gen. Pat Ryder put it: “We have no more replenishment funds.”

As Ryder was speaking, I was finishing a two-week reporting trip to Ukraine, where I visited three epicenters of the war against the Russians: Kherson, Kharkiv and Kyiv. These three cities are hundreds of miles from each other, but all of them are regularly bombed by Russia, which is a disturbing sign of

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