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We're probably going to have to bump our own aid as well, unless we're confident of an asymmetric counter to whatever Russia's doing with her funds (e.g. building munitions factory == strike on munitions factory).
I did read an article discussing that the US should be on firmer ground than last year politically on funds:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/the-united-states-needs-a-long-term-approach-to-ukraine-aid/
To be fair, Russia is running out of Soviet era weapons, so we are probably still outpacing them in the long run. But Ukraine needs all the help they can get. Military spending there is like 40% of GDP while Russia is only 10-20% or so.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-hikes-national-defence-spending-by-23-2025-2024-09-30/
I mean, Russia has a benefit going away in the form of the Soviet weapons inventory, but we sent something like $62 billion to Ukraine in 2024. IIRC US-originating aid is on the order of half of what Ukraine got. Note that not all of this is grants, either...on the EU side, I believe that a considerable amount is loans on generous terms. I don't know whether those might be forgiven or something, whether doing it as a "loan" might be to help make it more-palatable to EU voters, but point is, it may be less than the up-front number. Also, a lot of US aid is in military aid, which may not be in a form as ideal to Ukraine as simply cash; cash could be used to purchase anything, which may-or-may-not be exactly the military hardware that's provided. Russia's getting cash that can be used to purchase whatever (well, okay, within the constraints imposed by sanctions).
But my broader point is, if Russia's putting more resources into the conflict, we may well need to be willing to counter that.
Also, keep in mind that some of those funds need to go to things like dealing with economic impact. Russia mostly has electrical power. Ukraine has lost something like 80% of their electrical output. That shuts down some of what Ukraine could be doing. If Ukraine cannot build something they need because an industry lacks electricity, then they need to import it, and that requires funds. Like, we can send a shit-ton of small generators and fuel to help offset that, but that costs something.
And that a fair amount of what Ukraine is doing is air defense, and at least as things stand -- a point that I saw just raised with the Israel/Iran missile issue -- it's generally cheaper to build something to throw something that explodes at the other guy than it is to build something that stops it before it hits.