From February 22, 2022 post.
Congressman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued the following statement on Russia's continued aggression against Ukraine:
"Russian aggression towards Ukraine is a crisis with global implications. Since Russia’s 2014 invasion, the United States has provided Ukraine with security assistance to help Ukraine defend itself and improve interoperability with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Today, President Putin continues to threaten Ukraine’s sovereignty and innocent Ukrainian lives in his pursuit of re-establishing a Russian Federation that more closely resembles the Soviet Union than a responsible global state in the post-Cold War era.
"President Biden and his administration must consider enacting sanctions that make further invasion prohibitively costly to President Putin and the Russian Federation. As well, he should proceed with the following actions:
1) appoint a U.S. ambassador to Ukraine without further delay;
2) detail specific punitive sanctions the United States will levy and how he intends to enforce them;
3) immediately reimpose sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline;
4) expeditiously provide additional lethal aid and any needed humanitarian assistance to the Ukrainian people;
5) continue to engage diplomatically with both the Ukrainian government and the Russian government with firm resolve.
"As a cosponsor of the Never Yielding Europe’s Territory (NYET) Act (H.R. 6742), which would impose real costs on the Putin regime by enacting severe sanctions and provide support for Ukraine before, during, and after Russian escalation, I am pleased to see many of America’s allies taking action to this extent. I urge the Biden administration to do the same. This administration is in no position to speak on sovereignty given their handling of Southern Border.
"As demonstrated by his insistence that Donetsk and Luhansk are now no longer part of Ukraine, Putin has shown he has no intention of backing down from taking sovereign Ukrainian territory by force. President Biden and Congress must act swiftly to show that Putin's actions against a sovereign and democratic Ukraine will not be tolerated."
Original source can be found here.
