US republicans advocate Russia’s keeping Ukrainian lands land to end war

Some US Congress’ Republican Party members have spoken in favour of handing over Ukrainian territories to Russia solely to put an end to the ongoing war, according to The Washington Post.

More than half of the Republicans oppose the provision of large amounts of weapons to Kyiv, saying that “we’re doing too much to help Ukraine, we should stop funding its defence, period.” 

“A new Gallup poll gave people a binary choice between supporting Ukraine’s efforts to reclaim its territory and ending the war quickly — even if it meant Russia was allowed to keep conquered territory. A slight majority of Republicans picked the former, but 41 per cent were willing to countenance Russia keeping the territory in the name of ending the war. That’s compared to just 16 per cent of Democrats who believed the same,” the article says.