Wilson’s resolution is co-sponsored by Rep. “All other half measures will lead to the collapse of both international law and the global security system, and the decline of the Western world,” Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, told Yahoo News.
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“It certainly seems unlikely that anything short of a failed offensive will make this clear.”īut for Ukrainians, anything short of a full expulsion of Russian forces is untenable. “They would be pressed to retake all of Donbas Crimea would take a miracle,” said Ben Friedman, chief analyst at the Washington, D.C., think tank Defense Priorities, which tends to be skeptical of intervention-heavy foreign policy. Returning to 1991 borders is unrealistic, some experts say, especially since retaking Crimea would likely require an amphibious assault of the sort for which the Ukrainian forces are not equipped. Russia has since fully annexed those and two other provinces, in a move that has widely been deemed illegal. The Kremlin also backed Russian separatists in Luhansk and Donetsk, two regions in a part of eastern Ukraine known as the Donbas. Russian President Vladimir Putin seized Crimea during an initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014, which the United States and many European nations condemned but did not stop. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in 2021. Its introduction comes at a time when both Ukraine and Russia have struggled to break through a months-long stalemate marked by brutal fighting around the city of Bakhmut. The resolution requires passage from the full chamber, where support for Ukraine has generally been stronger than in the House, which is controlled by Republicans. “To our NATO allies as well as Ukraine, our message must be that we’ll have your back in this fight for freedom and democracy - yours and ours together.” “Ukraine will win the war - and win the peace - if America continues its steadfast support, as this resolution strongly states,” Blumenthal said in a statement forwarded by his press secretary. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Republican. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, both of whom are Democrats, and Sen. On Tuesday evening, the Senate followed with a bipartisan victory resolution of its own, introduced by Sens. The return to that year’s borders is significant because 1991 marked the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of an independent Ukraine that included the Crimean Peninsula.
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