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Sen. Shaheen to Rubio: “Now is the time to increase pressure on Russia, because Russia is feeling it. So let’s put pressure on them, let’s get them to negotiating table, and let’s get just and lasting peace in Ukraine.
And that’s not going to happen as long as we’re pussyfooting around with Vladimir Putin and letting him get away with stringing the President along.”
Rep. Keating to Rubio: "Now on Iran. Trump administration issued general license to Russia, providing billions in oil profits every month — several billion every month — fueling Putin's war machine.
You didn't mention that in your opening remarks. Russia is waging war of aggression against Ukraine, and we gave them our license agreement.
And we do this to Ukraine, a country that's assisting us in Iran, while we are helping Russia fund its war machine — a country that is aiding Iran against us and putting our service members in jeopardy."
Rubio once again complains US-led negotiations between Ukraine and Russia were "unfruitful":
"We invested tremendous amount of high-level time in that conflict over last year. Neither side is prepared to make concessions necessary to reach agreement."
Once again, it is necessary to point out the obvious: when you have a nation trying to murder its neighbors to steal their land, and people just trying to survive, there is no middle ground.
Ukrainians, as the victims of this unprovoked attack, cannot just agree to die under Russian occupation, rot in FSB torture chambers, and be thrown into unmarked mass graves to never be found.
We simply want to live. There is zero room for concessions. As for Russia, they can be forced to stop killing us.
You could bring them to that breaking point much faster than we can do without you, if you finally stopped this disgusting bothsidesism, stopped endless sanctions waivers, seized their shadow fleet, and armed Ukraine to the teeth.
This is not a movie about meteor showers before the apocalypse; this is Russia bombing Kyiv last night. A city with several million people in it - children, the elderly, and normal families just like yours.
The only reason for Russia’s overnight horrific attack against Ukraine with 656 drones and 73 missiles that killed at least 12, including children, and injured hundreds of civilians is that Putin is a war criminal and loser who has no cards except terror.
Moscow is losing on the battlefield. No number of missiles can change this.
What we can change is Russia’s ability to continue terror. I urge partners to act, not only condemn. There are concrete steps that can be taken.
First. Use the unblocked European Peace Fund to fund the PURL program and buy additional “Patriot” systems and missiles for Ukraine. Advance the anti-ballistic coalition. Increase investment in Ukraine’s long-range capabilities.
Second. Ramp up pressure on Russia through new sanctions, travel bans for combatants, the full use of frozen assets, and isolation.
Third. Take long overdue strategic steps such as opening EU negotiation clusters for Ukraine.
Terrorists in Moscow must realise that their brutal attacks won’t bring them anywhere. That the price for their regime will only increase. That the only way out for Putin is to immediately end this war.
Peace efforts will only succeed when they are backed with real pressure on Moscow.
REP. KEATING: I have some questions about our envoy, Steve Witkoff. I mean, he met with Putin at length. He came out of that saying Putin is trustworthy.
That this war criminal is a good guy. That he trusts him. Witkoff even gave advice to Ushakov, a top Putin advisor, on how to flatter our president and how to manipulate our president for the Russians.
That not only provokes concern and feeling on my part that he’s not up to the job, but even colleague on Armed Services Committee on the other side of the aisle, Representative Bacon, said the guy should be removed.
I must tell you, it just reinforces to me that at the end, in Ukraine there has to be some kind of military provision in place, not just words with Putin, to make sure he stops. And this is completely relevant to the Baltics, because they’re next.
ZELENSKYY: We see that Russia is increasing its internal production of ballistic missiles. And we have deficit of anti-ballistic missiles. This is big problem.
United States can produce 60 to 65 missiles per month. For today's challenges, it's nothing. We need to increase and expand production.
I asked previous U.S. administration, and I'm asking today's U.S. administration: give Ukraine licenses, and we will increase production of Patriot missiles.
It will be very helpful for us. It will be very helpful for Middle East, for everybody whom the United States will decide to help.
Nyheten om Gripen till Ukraina har mötts av glädje och stolthet hos många svenskar. Så dock inte hos "nationalistpartiledaren" Gustav Kasselstrand vars uttalanden stämde så väl in på Kremls talepunkter att han fick stor plats i den statliga ryska tv-kanalen Rossija 1:s rapportering.
Kasselstrands parti har tidigare marknadsfört sig som något slags nationalistiskt parti som motsätter sig "folkutbyte" i Sverige. När folkutbyte nu sker i sydöstra Ukraina och de ursprungliga ukrainska invånarna dödas, fördrivs, blir av med sina hem eller manipuleras att flytta till avfolkningsbygder i ryska fjärran östern och istället ersätts av tjetjener, centralasiatiska gästarbetare och ryssar så verkar dock Kasselstrand inte ha mycket emot det. Åtminstone inte så mycket att partiet vill ge något stöd till Ukraina att förhindra att en ännu större del av det ukrainska folket råkar ut för samma sak.
Inte heller verkar hans parti ge uttryck för stolthet när svensk ingenjörskonst i form av stridsflygplanet JAS-39 Gripen väljs ut som det bästa valet av ett land som kämpar för sin självständighet mot Sveriges historiska ärkefiende.
Kasselstrand bor för övrigt inte i Sverige sedan flera år. Hur han skulle agera vid ett ryskt angrepp mot Sverige får vi förhoppningsvis aldrig veta.
Mig lurar ingen kommunist genom att tjata om miljardärer när de samtidigt vill komma åt människor som har sparat ihop 2 miljoner på ISK eller tjänar mer än 50 000.
After spending a week in Eastern Europe it is very apparent that our tardiness to meet weapons delivery commitments is undermining deterrence and encourages Russia to be more aggressive. Our defense industry must step up and expand production. We are leaving countries that border Russia with a lack of ammo. The same is occurring with Taiwan.
We have intel indicating that Russia is preparing a new massive attack. Please pay attention to air raid alerts and stay safe.
Air defense and the continued need to help Ukraine protect its skies are our key priorities. I am grateful to every partner, every leader, and every country that is ready to help and that implements our arrangements in full.
The PURL initiative must work. This concerns both the United States and Europe. We are pooling funds from our European partners and other friends to purchase missiles, including for Patriot systems. Sufficient supplies depend on America, and we hope that Ukraine will be heard.