The US Senate minority chief, Mitch McConnell, has joined the rising record of US politicians making visits to Kyiv, it emerged on Saturday
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomed McConnell’s go to as a robust sign of bipartisan help for Ukraine.
McConnell led a delegation, which included the Republican senators Susan Collins of Maine, John Barrasso of Wyoming and John Cornyn of Texas, to the Ukrainian capital the place he was hosted by Zelenskiy on the Home of Chimaeras contained in the presidential administration compound.
In remarks and video posted on Instagram on Saturday, Zelenskiy informed the guests that Ukraine was defending not solely itself however all democratic values and freedoms and the proper of individuals to freely select their very own future.
“Thanks in your management in serving to us in our wrestle not just for our nation, but additionally for democratic values and freedoms. We actually admire it,” Zelenskiy stated.
“Russia is committing genocide towards the Ukrainian individuals,” he added. “[Russia’s President Vladimir Putin] commits struggle crimes that horrify the entire world – torture, mass executions, rape. Europe has not seen such crimes since World Battle II.”
The go to comes as a $40bn US army help price range has stalled within the Senate over calls for issued by the Kentucky senator Rand Paul for a watchdog to trace the spending.
In a uncommon bipartisan request, McConnell and the Senate majority chief, Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, supplied Paul a vote on his modification to the package deal. That supply was rejected with Paul saying he needed modifications to the underlying invoice.
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