House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy responded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky‘s address to congressional members on Wednesday and called the president’s words “powerful.”
McCarthy responded to Zelensky’s request for additional military aid, which included a request for anti-ship missiles, improved satellite navigation technology, drones, and other military aid. The House minority leader added that he felt the United States could no longer “sit by and ignore” the war crimes that he says have been committed.
“He made the case very strongly,” McCarthy added during the press conference. “We think about what President Biden should do — I think there’s a bipartisan movement right here.”
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McCarthy added that he believes that Biden should “provide them the MIGs, provide them the planes and they can create a no-fly zone, provide them the armament that they need to continue to fight a war that they did not create.”
“I thought the video was one of the most moving moments in that,” McCarthy said. “It made the case of the murdering of innocent people. That war crimes are being committed. That America and the world cannot sit by and ignore. We need to put a stop to this, and I think greater pressure, greater armament,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy pointed out that in the “entire time” of speaking with Zelensky, the Ukrainian president has “never asked for American men or women to be in a battle. All he’s ever asked for is: ‘Give us the opportunity to defend ourselves, don’t let us fight with sticks.'”
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Ahead of Zelensky’s address, Ukrainian officials requested that the Biden administration provide them with more military aid in the war with Russia. Among the list of requested items included Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and Javelin anti-tank missiles.
A group of bipartisan politicians issued a letter to Biden on Friday asking him to transfer manned and unmanned aircraft to Ukraine.
“Russia’s advantage in this domain could soon develop into air dominance if the Ukrainians do not receive necessary military aid,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter.
