A congresswoman from Ukraine was against the aid. Betrayal, says her hometown

The mayor of Ernihiv, Oleksandr Lomako, once had words of praise for the congresswoman. He declared her to be brave when she visited her hometown in April 2022 after repelling the Russian influx.

She doesn’t want to now, because she didn’t stand up for Ukraine in the last ballot for aid. I am very disappointed. She was here, he told The Washington Post. She saw the destruction caused by the Russians with her own eyes, not from conservative outlets like Fox News, he added.

The other inhabitants of the city do not show their disappointment. According to some, she could not vote otherwise, because she is a supporter of ex-president Donald Trump, whose faction is the most opposed to aid to Ukraine.

U nen is Ukrainian, said the teacher from grade 15 Natalia Khmelnyck, where Spartzov studied. We are disappointed. We are frustrated. After all, we were very proud of her and thought she wanted to support us. But we can see that politics and career are not our interests for her.

Spartzov explained that she is taking a reserved position because she wants a clear strategy from the administration of President Joe Biden regarding the involvement of the US in the war and close supervision of what the aid is spent on. According to him, aid to Ukraine should have loan parameters and Washington should pay more attention to domestic problems.

I understand the significance of this battle and the consequences if Russia wins, but I’m not that naive. If we don’t have oversight, we won’t meet our goals, she was quoted as saying by The Wall Street Journal. We can’t have these endless wolves.

Spartzov links his demand for full supervision of aid to Ukraine with criticism of Volodymyr Zelensky. He is pointing out that he is a five-time liar who has let down the Ukrainian people. The politician has long suspected Zelensky and the people around him of corruption. Kiev reacted angrily to her and accused her of trying to score political points.

I understand the fight against corruption, one close friend of his late father, Oleksandr Seruk, said about him. But what you wear is n stt. Whatever your political or electoral motives, do not justify the death of so many people.

Political pressure

Spartzov was born in Ukraine in 1978. Her father died in 1991, when Ukraine declared independence, from cancer caused by the explosion of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. After dating her husband Jason, she immigrated to the USA in 2000. In 2020, he managed to get into the House of Representatives for Indiana.

After the Russian invasion, she became a vocal supporter of military aid to Ukraine, often citing her cause. According to The Wall Street Journal, Republicans used her to criticize the Democratic Biden administration for not doing enough against Russian aggression.

His gradually declining stance reflected a more skeptical current within the Republican Party, which called on Biden to focus on domestic security and border protection at a time when the country is facing a migrant crisis. The Democrats still hoped that Spartzov would lead his party colleagues to the polls for the aid package for Ukraine.

We had a feeling that she would be one of the republicans who are really willing to go to Ukraine’s aid, said Democratic congresswoman Sara Jacobsov, who was with Spartz in the attacked country. Unfortunately, we did not see her use her personal knowledge of the country and its politics to mobilize other republicans.

Spartzov has come under considerable pressure in recent months due to recent pro-Ukrainian tensions. In the Republican primaries in May, her fight against challenger Chuck Goodrich only portrays her as an ardent supporter of Ukraine against American tax dollars.

Victoria Spartzov sent 40 billion dollars from our taxes to Ukraine, the border will not be completed, said one of Goodrich’s election ads. For Victoria Spartz, the state of Ukraine in the first place?