NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the U.S. to lift the restrictions, calls that have begun to gain favor among some lawmakers on the Hill. Last week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers led by House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Michael Turner, R-Ohio, penned a letter to the Defense Department asking that the restrictions on U.S. weapons use be lifted.
"Ukrainians have been unable to defend themselves due to the administration's current policy," the letter read.
According to an Institute for the Study of War report, Russia has continued to amass equipment and men at the Ukrainian border for its planned Kharkiv offensive. The bulk of that equipment has remained in reserve on the Russian side of the border, the report noted, far enough away to be out of the reach of much of Ukraine’s arsenal.
President Biden (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
"I think we need to allow Ukraine to prosecute the war the way they see fit," Johnson said. "They need to be able to fight back."
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