[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 41 (Tuesday, March 8, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H1343-H1344]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         PUTIN'S WAR ATROCITIES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Carter of Louisiana). The Chair 
recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Wilson) for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, the murderous Putin's war 
on Ukraine is recognized worldwide as criminal.
  I am grateful that America and our NATO allies have unified to 
support Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian 
people. I have faith in the Russian people, who I have met on numerous 
visits across Russia, that they will reject Putin's war atrocities.
  Russia is a nation of world-significant art, music, architecture, 
literature, and can change. And that is why I am introducing a bill to 
encourage Russian military defectors, true Russian patriots, with 
immediate refugee status in America with up to $100,000 for Russian 
military equipment transferred to Ukraine. Putin betrays the troops to 
death for his purpose of oil, money, power.
  Additionally, I will introduce a bill for a bust of President 
Volodymyr Zelensky to be placed in the U.S. Capitol, as is the bust of 
Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Churchill was the wartime leader of 
World War II, and Volodymyr Zelensky is the wartime leader in Putin's 
war.

  On Saturday, I was very grateful to be part of the Zoom address by 
President Zelensky to the U.S. Congress. And today, he is addressing 
the British Parliament.
  In December, I visited Kyiv, and I was so inspired by the people of 
Ukraine. It is a modern, free-market democracy with extraordinary 
success for its citizens of eight-lane boulevards with modern SUVs.

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  Today, Putin's war is conducting mass murder, defaming the people of 
Russia as innocent women and children are being murdered.
  God bless Ukraine. God save Ukraine. Long live Volodymyr Zelensky.

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