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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Thalia Beaty

For donors, wartime Ukraine aid creates blurry ethical line

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Bulletproof vests and drones. Pickup trucks, walkie-talkies and tourniquets. These are just some of the items that individuals and nonprofits have donated to buy and ship to Ukraine, where sometimes they are then used by those fighting Russia's invasion.

“We’ve had these discussions countless times,” said Igor Markov, a director of the nonprofit Nova Ukraine, about where to draw the line between what aid is humanitarian versus that which supports the active defense — the fighting — in his home country.

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