Risch Joins Bipartisan Resolution Condemning Russian Incursions into Nato Territory and Reaffirming Nato Article 5 on Collective Defense

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), in a bipartisan resolution condemning Russian incursions into NATO territory and reaffirming Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.

Russia recently violated NATO airspace with multiple drone incursions into Poland-marking the first time in the history of NATO that alliance fighters had engaged enemy targets in allied airspace. Shortly thereafter, another Russian drone breached Romanian airspace during an attack on neighboring Ukraine, prompting Romanian officials to scramble fighter jets. Russian fighters next entered Estonian airspace and the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone.

The resolution also condemns Russian's continued assault on Ukraine, kidnapping of Ukrainian children, and refusal to negotiate an end to the war. Text of the resolution can be found here.

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