Petro Poroshenko, who served as the President of Ukraine between 2014 and 2019, said defeating Vladimir Putin's invasion of his country is about defending democracy across the free world.
Petro Poroshenko, who served as the President of Ukraine between 2014 and 2019, said he appreciates the U.S. government's support for his country — but first and foremost, he told CBS News that he wanted to thank"the United States people."Defeating Vladimir Putin's invasion of his country, Poroshenko said, is about defending democracy across the free world.
"This is fighting not only for Ukraine, this is fighting for United States, this is fighting for the whole Western world," the former leader told us in Kyiv. Ukraine's former leader Petro Poroshenko addresses supporters after his arrival at an airport outside Kyiv, January 17, 2022.But last month, then-minority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy suggested Republicans could reassess military assistance to Ukraine. McCarthy said there should be"no blank check" for the U.S. partner, which years of war have made into a buffer zone on democratic Europe's eastern border with autocratic Russia.
Retired General Ben Hodges, who commanded the U.S. Army in Europe between 2014 and 2018, said the Republican lawmakers' remarks sound like,"a Kremlin-quality fairy tale — but nonetheless, that's what's coming from the Republican side." The former commander is also critical of progressive Democrats in Congress who wrote a letter urging President Biden to use diplomacy to somehow end the war,
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