MCCONNELL, SHAHEEN IN THE WASHINGTON POST: RUSSIA ISN'T WINNING ITS WAR ON UKRAINE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Sen. Mitch McConnell issued the following press release:

U.S. Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Jean Shaheen (D-NH) submitted the following op-ed published by The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/22/putin-russia-trump-war-ukraine/):

In the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Biden administration gave Congress its assessment of Ukraine's ability to hold back Russian forces. The projection was bleak. Kyiv, they said, would fall in weeks, if not sooner.

Yet, the Russian tanks that attempted to topple Ukraine's democratically elected government were either destroyed or forced to retreat. By April, not only had Putin failed to install a friendly government i...