VIDEO: Fischer on Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's Address to Congress, Importance of Aid for Ukraine

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U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today participated in a press conference in light of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's joint address to Congress and the importance of providing Ukraine assistance.

Sen. Fischer also reiterated the need for the Biden administration to fundamentally re-evaluate its approach towards Russia, including within our nation's Nuclear Posture Review and National Defense Strategy.

A copy of Sen. Fischer's opening remarks is pasted below:

President Zelenskyy is inspiring, and he is a fighter. President Zelenskyy is a leader and he is a hero.

But his situation is dire.

We should be looking at any and all available options that are out there to assist Ukraine.

In particular, the more sophisticated anti-air systems to counter Russian bombing.

Some options could include working with our allies to provide the Soviet-era

systems that the Ukrainian forces know how to operate.

They're familiar with things like the SA-8 and the SA-10 and those can target planes at higher altitudes.

Other resources are the counter-drone technology as well as the anti-tank and anti-air weapons that we've heard my colleagues mention.

While we remain laser focused on helping Ukraine and the Ukrainian people, I think it is critical for the Biden administration to fundamentally re-evaluate their approach to Russia.

We've seen past administrations that have overlooked decades of Putin's bad behavior and they hope that possibly American restraint is going to lead Moscow to take the same approach.

Well with what we've seen this month, we know that is a fantasy. That is a fantasy to think that Russia, to think that Putin, is going to change his behavior.

Right now, we have the National Defense Strategy, the Nuclear Posture Review before the administration.

I hope as President Biden reviews those and issues the new ones that he hopes to, that he really looks at the changing security environment that we are facing as a country, that he really takes into account the threats that we face as a nation in this changing environment.

And I sincerely hope he will make wise decisions before he makes overreaching changes to those strategies."

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