{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2025/9/tillis-shaheen-issue-joint-statement-on-russian-airstrike-in-kyiv", "Tillis, Shaheen Issue Joint Statement on Russian Airstrike in Kyiv", "2025-09-10", "2025", "2025-09", "Republican", "Senate", "NC", "Thom Tillis", "T000476", "www.tillis.senate.gov", "tillis", "https://www.tillis.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), co-chairs of the Senate NATO ObserverGroup, released the following statement in response to Russia\u2019s recent airstrike on Kyiv, the largest airstrike since the start of the war:\n\n\u201cIt has been three weeks since President Trump met with Vladimir Putin. Since that time, Putin met with fellow autocrats in Beijing to conspire against America and returned to Moscow to escalate his illegal invasion of Ukraine. Russia deliberately struck EU diplomatic facilities and other Western assets in Kyiv\u2014a calculated provocation against America\u2019s allies. Russia has now launched the largest aerial assault since the invasion began\u2014firing more than 800 drones and missiles, setting Ukraine\u2019s Cabinet of Ministers ablaze and killing civilians, including a mother and her infant.\n\n\u201cAt the very moment Putin escalates, the United States appears to be cutting back. Programs like Section 333 security cooperation, which includes the Baltic Security Initiative\u2014lifelines for NATO\u2019s eastern flank\u2014are now on the chopping block, even as Europe takes on more of the burden. The message this sends is dangerous: that the United States is pulling back just as the stakes in Ukraine and for NATO\u2019s security are at their highest. Our adversaries are taking note that they can wait out American support\u2014that does not make America safer.\n\n\u201cPutin has shown us time and again that he is a liar and a murderer. He never wanted peace. Congress should swiftly pass legislation that imposes crippling sanctions on Putin\u2019s regime and cement continued U.S. military support to Ukraine and NATO\u2019s Eastern Flank. America must not hand Putin an advantage; the cost of inaction to America\u2019s security is too high.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2025/9/tillis-shaheen-issue-joint-statement-on-russian-airstrike-in-kyiv"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3635170180350542, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}