American non-partisan senator, member of the US Senate Armed Forces Committee Agnus King visited Ukraine and compared the current war with the First World War. He said this on the air of CBS on January 8, POLITICO reports..

“The situation in eastern Ukraine “is essentially a trench war,” said Angus King. - It's almost World War I. It's horrible"

He stressed that, in his opinion, the United States should continue to provide military support to Ukraine for its own interests.. He also said that the latest aid package from the White House, including armored vehicles, is designed to solve this problem..

“It would be disastrous to stop aid to Ukraine at this stage,” King said, responding to calls from some House Republicans to cut funding to Ukraine.. “Putting it in perspective for Americans:

It looks like our east coast, from Maine to Florida and further west to Houston, Texas, has been occupied by a foreign power.”.

After meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, King said he was " And he stressed that, in his opinion, money is not spent in vain.

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Recall that the full-scale invasion of the Russian army in Ukraine led to the largest wave of refugees since the Second World War, said the representative of the UN Refugee Organization Katharina Lampp.