Pelosi: ‘Vladimir Putin Has Instructed His Troops to Use Rape, Kidnapping, and Murder in Front of Family Members as a Weapon of War’

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Pelosi: “Thank you. I thank the distinguished ranking member of the appropriations committee for yielding but also for her leadership in bringing this to the floor. I join Mr. Turner and others in saluting the speaker as well as our leader, Mr. Jeffries, for making this important legislation possible. I associate myself with everything that’s been said already about Ukraine but I want to just focus on one particular area. Two years ago, almost two eke – two years ago and almost two weeks ago I leld the first high level delegation to Kyiv we saw the danger of the Russians. Let me tell you what’s heartbreaking about it. Vladimir Putin has instructed his troops to use rape, kidnapping, and murder in front of family members as a weapon of war to demoralize the people of Ukraine. I hope that our colleagues will choose democracy and decency rather than autocracy and evil. Because I fear that if you choose the Putin route you will have blood on your hands. Blood of the children, blood of their mothers, raped in front of their parent, raped in front of their children. I urge an aye vote on this.”