GOP wants US intelligence community to help Ukrainians retake Russian-occupied territory

Republicans want the U.S. intelligence community to increase its information-sharing with Ukraine significantly, including helping the country’s military if it moves to retake the Russian-occupied territories of Crimea and the Donbas.

The Russian military has abandoned its efforts surrounding the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv after a disjointed invasion launched in February and is regrouping in eastern Ukraine, with plans to carry out significant operations there. Russian leader Vladimir Putin seized the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 while Russian-backed separatists began seizing portions of the eastern Donbas region the same year.