Not really.
President Zelenskyy trusts the U.S.
“Why care about Ukraine and the Budapest Memorandum”
Brookings
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-care-about-ukraine-and-the-budapest-memorandum/
In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the United States, Russia, and Britain committed “to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine” and “to refrain from the threat or use of force” against the country.
Those assurances played a key role in persuading the Ukrainian government in Kyiv to give up what amounted to the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal, consisting of some 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads. Extending the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Assurances for Ukraine
Before agreeing to give up this nuclear arsenal, Kyiv sought three assurances:
1st- it wanted compensation for the value of the highly-enriched uranium in the nuclear warheads, which could be blended down for use as fuel for nuclear reactors. Russia agreed to provide that.
2nd- eliminating ICBMs, ICBM silos, and bombers did not come cheaply. With its economy rapidly contracting, the Ukrainian government could not afford the costs. The United States agreed to cover those costs with Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction assistance.
3rd- Ukraine wanted guarantees or assurances of its security once it got rid of the nuclear arms. The Budapest Memorandum provided security assurances.
Unfortunately, RUSSIA HAS BROKEN virtually all the commitments it undertook in that document. It used military force to seize, and then illegally annex, Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in early 2014. -excerpt
Russians in Khabarovsk line up in "Z" formation
in 2022 to demonstrate their support for Putin's invasion of Ukraine
Drago: "I guess the “Z Man” thinks he has the Senate bought & paid for??"
First, it's curious how the letter "Z" was Russia's own symbol for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and yet our anti-Ukers have weaponized the "Z" symbol to mock Ukrainians with.
For Russians, their "Z" refers to "Za pobedy", meaning "for victory" in Ukraine.
In Ukrainian, "for victory" is transliterated to: "Za peremohu", though there is no record I can find of Ukrainians using that "Z" symbol for such purposes.
Russian 2022 mural in Yelabuga, with "Z" symbol
and the words, "Truth is With Us"
As for the US senate, you can fuhgeddaboudit, because the only man who's support for or against Ukraine matters right now is this one, and he does support US aid for Ukraine, last time I checked:
