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Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer is in Ukraine to reiterate US beef up for the rustic and ratchet up force on Area Republicans again house to move a international assist invoice that incorporates additional help for Ukraine and Israel.
4 different Democratic senators, Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, traveled with Schumer as a part of a congressional delegation to mark the two-year anniversary of the Russian invasion and to satisfy with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in keeping with a remark from his place of work.
The consult with comes as Area Republicans are protecting nonetheless a international assist bundle that will ship additional assist to Ukraine and Israel. The $95.3 billion international assist invoice, which was once handed via the Senate closing week, faces a showdown within the Area as Speaker Mike Johnson has instructed his Area Republican Convention contributors that he’s now not dashing to answer the invoice.
Schumer instructed The Gentleman Report’s Wolf Blitzer Friday that all through his consult with, Zelensky instructed him that Ukraine will win its warfare in opposition to Russia if Congress passes additional assist to the rustic.
“He stated if we get the help, if Ukraine will get the help and we vote for the supplemental bundle, they are going to win the warfare, “ Schumer stated on “The Scenario Room.” “They have the troops, they nonetheless have a really perfect plan and they’ve significantly better combating skill than the Russians.”
Consistent with the New York Democrat, Zelensky stated that if Congress does now not move additional help for Ukraine and the rustic does now not get the ammunition it wishes, Ukraine will lose its warfare with Russia.
If Ukraine loses, Schumer warned, “Our allies will assume we will be able to now not keep on with them anymore. It’ll be a really perfect harm to NATO and Europe, and autocrats, worst of all, autocrats will really feel they are able to push america round.”
Schumer referred to as upon Johnson to do so at the international assist invoice and stated that he must come to Ukraine.
“If he put the invoice at the flooring, it will move,” he stated. “There are a excellent selection of Republicans within the Area who know the way necessary it’s. And he has to peer that historical past is on his again. He can’t have obeisance to Donald Trump. He has to do the proper factor right here. And we’re going to make that time to him.”
President Joe Biden on Friday repeated his calls on Congress to move his management’s nationwide safety supplemental.
“Congress is aware of that via supporting this invoice, we will make stronger safety in Europe, make stronger our safety at house, and get up to Putin. Opposing this invoice most effective performs into his arms,” Biden wrote in a remark.
Schumer’s consult with to Ukraine got here because the Biden management imposed sanctions on greater than 500 goals Friday in accordance with the dying of Russian opposition determine and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny and Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
The senator referred to as the sanctions “essential” and “a large step ahead,” however warned “This received’t be the top of it.”
“I’m positive there’s extra that we will do,” Schumer stated. “We will have to display Putin that he pays a value, an financial value in addition to a political value and an army value. One of the best ways, via the way in which, to punish him for what he did for Navalny is to get the help handed, and that assist will in reality put Putin at the back of the 8 ball.”
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