Victoria Spartz, Ukraine native, delivers tearful plea to Biden: Don’t ’embarrass’ us

Indiana GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz, a Ukraine native, delivered a passionate appeal Tuesday before President Biden’s State of the Union address, saying the world needs him to stop the “genocide” of the Ukrainian people and if Biden doesn’t step up, the “blood of many millions of Ukrainians will be on his hands, too.”

Spartz, who fled Soviet-controlled Ukraine at the age of 21, talked of friends and family still in Ukraine, including her 95-year-old grandma, who are experiencing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces bomb “civilians nonstop day and night,” murder innocent women and children with machine guns and level cities to the ground, she said. 

“This is not a war,” a tearful Spartz, 43, said at a House Republican news conference Tuesday. “This is a genocide of the Ukrainian people by a crazy man who cannot get over that Ukrainian people do not want socialism, the Soviet Union [or] communism. They want to be with the United States of America. They want to be free people.”

VICTORIA SPARTZ, RAISED IN SOVIET COUNTRY, SAYS IT’S ‘CRAZY’ FOR AMERICANS TO WANT SOCIALISM HERE

Ukrainians want to fight back, but they need guns, not sticks, she said in urging Biden to provide more aid. She said Biden’s sanctions against Russia are too little and too late. Without greater action, Putin won’t stop his invasion in Ukraine, and the United States will ultimately have to join in the fight with military troops, she said.

“I think we have an obligation and duty to save this world, help Ukrainian people to survive,” Spartz said. “And this president needs to get this his act together and exercise some leadership. What’s happening under his watch is an atrocity.”

She added: “He must…