Fresh off an Aug. 12 visit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) praised Kyiv’s forces for driving into Russia.
They also called for renewed U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) support for the Ukrainian war effort.
“After our sixth visit to Kyiv, we are more hopeful than ever that the tide of war has turned against [Russian President Vladimir Putin] and his cronies,” Blumenthal and Graham said in a joint press statement.
“Ukraine’s decision to go on the offensive in the Kursk region of Russia was bold and brilliant.”
Russian forces have been fighting for the past week to contain Ukrainian forces that blitzed across the Ukraine–Russia border on Aug. 6 and spread across large swathes of the western Kursk region….