 The West gives Ukraine five months to win. Ukraine has five months to demonstrate some advances to the US and other Western backers to convince them of its plans for the conflict with Russia, the Financial Times reported, citing several European and American officials. Washington is entering an election cycle and has to show that the massive military support the US and its allies have been providing to Ukraine has not been in vain, the paper also said. It is important for America to sell this war as a successful one, as well as for the domestic purposes to prove that all those aid packages have been successful in terms of Ukrainian advances, a European official told the Financial Times. The polls show that public support for Ukraine is waning in the US. And President Biden's administration has to show that the tens of billions of dollars it spent on assistance for Kiev made a major difference on the front line, the media outlet said. According to newspaper sources, Washington believes the next five months are critical to the outcome of the conflict. If we get to September and Ukraine has not made significant gains, then the international pressure on the West to bring them to negotiations will be enormous. Another source told the newspaper on condition of anonymity. The Western military support for Kiev is also about to reach its limits. The sources warned. The message to Kiev is basically that this is the best you're going to get. A European official told the paper, there's no more flexibility in the US budget to keep writing checks and European arms factories are running at full capacity. We can't keep the same level of assistance forever. A European official said, adding that the current level of support might be sustained for a year or two, but no longer.