I read somewhere (don’t have it bookmarked) that Ukraine needed/needs $5-7 billion a month to just stay break even/to stay above water.
They should do what everybody else does, live within their means.
According to World Bank/IMF, Ukraine’s 2021 GDP was $200 billion.
7 million people fled to both EU (and Russia) when this war started. That’s about 20% of the population. They have conscripted every man between 18-65. They lost the Eastern Oblasts to Russia (or what remains is probably destroyed by war) and their output and population.
What is GDP now? Its anyone’s guess
The fact that the USA has given them $80 billion and Zelensky is asking for another $57 billion again tells me foreign support is the vast majority of their total economy
So, they are a complete and total colony of NATO and the USA.
It also says - that if US political support waivers in the slightest - Ukraine collapses to nothing. It will disappear.