[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S25]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                Ukraine

  Mr. President, on a completely different topic, we know what Vladimir 
Putin is up to in Ukraine. His cruelty and cynicism were on full 
display when he decided that he would invade Ukraine and bring it back 
into the Soviet army.
  He launched a horrific strike on the Ukraine capital of Kyiv--news 
reports that he is desperately using and procuring now North Korean 
missiles to continue to launch those attacks on Ukraine.
  Then he tried to silence anyone in Russia who might dissent from his 
strategy, anyone in Russia who actually had the audacity to suggest 
there should be democracy and freedom in that country. He sent one of 
his harshest critics to prison, and he moves him around within Russia 
from time to time. The man's name is Alexey Navalny. He is now in 
Siberia in prison and is going to stay in that prison indefinite. Why? 
Vladimir Putin cannot countenance the thought that that man would be 
out of prison and speak freely in Russia about his feelings about Putin 
and his agenda, and so he puts him in prison and silences him.