By Ryan King
A delegation of House Republicans led by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) visited Kyiv on Tuesday, a day after President Joe Biden made the same trek.
The roughly half a dozen House Republican group met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin during the trip that was intended for them to gain more granular, “firsthand” knowledge of the war, according to an aid to McCaul.
McCaul was joined by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Keith Self (R-TX), Max Miller (R-OH), and Jake Ellzey (R-TX). The visit was also meant to further Republican plans for oversight of the United States’s response to the war in Ukraine and featured discussions about alleged Russian war crimes, according to Fox News.
During an exchange with Zelensky caught on camera, McCaul praised the Ukrainian leader for exhibiting strength amid the onslaught from Moscow.