GOP candidate GovChristie swings through Ukraine in unannounced visit
Former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman discusses the new threat of nuclear war raised by former Russian President Medvedev, on ‘The Story.’made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Friday and became the second Republican presidential candidate to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the capital, Kyiv.in the country's presidential palace after touring villages that have become battlefields since Russia invaded last year. During the meeting, he reiterated his support for continued U.S.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the presidential palace in Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 4, 2023. Christie became the second GOP presidential candidate to travel to Ukraine, in an unannounced visit on Friday. The former governor is the second GOP hopeful to visit Ukraine after former Vice President Mike Pence, who last month said Ukrainian victory against Russia was"in the national interest of the United States, and all of the free world." In the Republican primary, Pence and Christie, along with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, are among the most vocal supporters of continued U.S. aide to Ukraine.
At a town hall event in Columbia, South Carolina, last month, Christie called the Ukraine-Russia conflict"a proxy war between the United States and China" and argued that Ukrainians"don’t want American men and women on the ground in Ukraine, nor would I send American men and women on the ground in Ukraine. What they want is the hardware to have a fair chance to beat the Russians.
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