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Explainer: Can Ukraine pay for war without wrecking economy?

FILE - Residents queue at a bank branch in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Nov. 21, 2022. [Bernat Armangue, AP]

Even as Ukraine celebrates recent battlefield victories, its government faces a looming challenge on the financial front: how to pay the enormous cost of the war effort without triggering out-of-control price spikes for ordinary people or piling up debt that could hamper postwar reconstruction.

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