Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) took warmth from Ukrainians on Monday after arguing that Ukraine just isn’t ready to maintain land taken by Russia through the three-year-long warfare.
“I just don’t see how they [Ukraine] can be positioned to demand to keep the land. If they would be winning the war, that will be very different,” the Ukrainian-born congresswoman stated in an interview with The Telegraph.
“As I said two years ago, the best thing is to win wars as fast as you can,” Spartz added. “As long as it takes usually doesn’t end very well for democracies.”
Spartz, 46, was born within the northern Ukrainian metropolis of Nosivka and immigrated to the US in 2000.
Regardless of her Ukrainian roots and preliminary assist for US help to her native nation, Spartz voted towards a $61 billion tranche of assist to Ukraine final 12 months and has endorsed President Trump’s resolution to interact in peace negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“There are no easy solutions,” Spartz instructed The Telegraph. “President Trump inherited it, so now he has to deal with that.”
The congresswoman went on to slam Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, urging her countrymen to elect a special chief.
“They will have an election, and then if they elect him, they’re going to lose the rest of the country,” Spartz warned.
The congresswoman’s feedback didn’t sit effectively with Ukrainians on social media.
“Recent Victoria Spartz’s statements are not advice. They’re an insult to a nation fighting for its survival,” Yevheniia Kravchuk, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, wrote on X.
“Ukrainians decide their own future, we don’t need instructions on who to elect or what land to ‘give up,’” Kravchuk continued, noting that Ukraine stays “committed to the peaceful efforts led by the US and our partners.”
“But peace cannot be built on humiliation – only on justice, freedom, and respect for a people who pay the highest price for these values every single day,” she added.
Oleksiy Sorokin, co-founder and deputy chief editor on the Kyiv Impartial, argued that Spartz is “bats–t” and can “say anything to please Trump.”
“[U]sing the fact that she was born in Ukraine to tell Ukrainians living in Ukraine during war what they should do is insane,” Sorokin wrote on X.
He additional requested Spartz to not use “we” when discussing Ukraine – “a country you don’t know.”
