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Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., praised the fierce fight of the Ukrainian people but said the United States needs to be prepared if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government falls into Russian hands.
Krishnamoorthi, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation called the SUPPORT Act that would aid Ukraine’s efforts to reclaim territory and reassert control if Russia pushes the government into exile.
Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat from Illinois, questions witnesses during a House Intelligence Committee impeachment inquiry hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019.
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“I think this is going to be a struggle that’s not going to end in a week or a month or a couple of months, I think it might be one that’s more long term,” Krishnamoorthi said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “And we have to be there for the Ukrainians.”
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Krishnamoorthi, who attends classified briefings as a member of the Intelligence Committee, said the Ukrainian people have put up a “dogged and a courageous fight” in the face of a Russian military with superior firepower and numbers.
If Russia continues to take more territory, the United States needs to find ways to help Ukraine mount an insurgency and reassert control – even if the government is relocated or has to go into exile, he said.
“The question is are they going to be equipped and are we going to be able to aid them sufficiently to be able to reassert control eventually,” Krishnamoorthi said.
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The Illinois Democrat authored the SUPPORT Act with Ohio Rep. Mike Turner, the top Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It would require plans for the U.S. to support a Ukrainian insurgency…
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