The resolution, requiring review from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, “affirms that it is [U.S. policy] to see Ukraine victorious...restored to its internationally recognized 1991 borders.” House to introduce resolution for Ukraine victory terms:
Ukrainian soldiers take part in military exercises outside Kyiv on April 20.
“We must not repeat the error of Sept. 1, 1939,” the resolution’s chief sponsor, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., told Yahoo News, referencing Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland, which followed desperate efforts to appease Nazi Germany and prevent a second world war. The return to that year’s borders is significant because 1991 marked the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of an independent Ukraine that included the Crimean Peninsula.Russian President Vladimir Putin seized Crimea during an initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014, which the United States and many European nations condemned but did not stop. The Kremlin also backed Russian separatists in Luhansk and Donetsk, two regions in a part of eastern Ukraine known as the Donbas.
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