WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Jen Psaki accused Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley of spreading Russia propaganda Wednesday after the Republican senator called for the Biden administration to drop support for Ukraine’s potential admission into NATO.
Hawley’s letter comes amid growing tension along Ukraine’s border with Russia as the international community braces for a potential invasion of the Eastern European country, which gained its independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
“If you are just digesting Russian misinformation and parroting Russian talking points, you are not aligned with long-standing bipartisan American values, which is to stand up for the sovereignty of countries like Ukraine but others, their right to choose their own alliances and also to stand against very clearly the efforts or attempts or potential attempts by any country to invade and take territory of another country,” Psaki said Wednesday when asked to respond to Hawley’s letter, which was published by Axios.
