Hartzler: Putin “A Thug” Needs to Feel Economic Pain if Russia Invades Ukraine
February 23, 2022 6:03AM CST
FILE – In this March 25, 2014, file photo, Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., left, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Hartzler, of Missouri announced Thursday, June 10, 2021, that she will run for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2022. Incumbent Republican Sen. Roy Blunt announced in March he would not seek reelection. Hartzler has been in Congress since 2011. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)
(MISSOURINET) – Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler is the senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee and represents Fort Leonard Wood and Whiteman Air Force Base. She says as of Tuesday she does not think that any service members from these bases have been deployed to the Ukraine. She says the U-S must stand by Ukraine.
Hartzler, speaking to press in Jefferson City Tuesday, called Russian President Vladimir Putin “a thug.”
She says the U-S withdrawal in Afghanistan emboldened Russia.
