Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Slamming The Trump Administration For Abstaining On A UN Resolution For A Just End To The War In Ukraine

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke on the Senate floor to condemn the Trump administration's failure to vote for a UN resolution that calls for the peaceful and just end to the war in Ukraine. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Four years ago, the tanks, missiles, and infantry rolled in from Russian territory into Ukrainian soil. Today, my colleagues and I pause to honor the memory of the courageous dead in Ukraine. We reaffirm that the Senate - and the American people - stand with the Ukrainian people, even if our President's courage and resolve might waver.

Today, I'm disgusted that the United States made a mockery of itself for the whole world to see, by voting to abstain from a resolution in the United Nations on a peaceful and just end to this war. Can you believe it? Putin brutally invades Ukraine. The whole world sees it and knows it. And Donald Trump, out of obeisance, sucking up to Putin, abstains from a resolution. Simply on a peaceful and just end to this war. What does Donald Trump want the war to continue and more people to die? I guess so.

On this anniversary of the Ukrainian War, it is shameful that this administration has chosen to mark it by turning its back on the Ukrainian people at the UN.

Let's us be clear-any peace that Donald Trump gives into, any peace made on Putin's terms would be no peace at all. It would be, rather, a reward to Putin for his belligerence, a reward that autocrats around the world, including here at home, will take note of.

When I was Majority Leader, I led this chamber to pass a historic defense packages to help Ukrainians defend themselves.

And four years later, despite all the loss and bloodshed, the people of Ukraine endure. They have held the line. But the conflict, sadly, is far from an end. American support remains indispensable and perhaps the single most important factor in determine the outcome of this conflict.

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