{"id":1475244,"date":"2022-05-14T12:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T16:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475244"},"modified":"2022-05-14T12:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T16:29:43","slug":"mcconnell-leads-secret-meeting-of-republican-senators-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-leads-secret-meeting-of-republican-senators-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Leads Secret Meeting Of Republican Senators In Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-leads-secret-meeting-of-republican-senators-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475244&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell led a group of Senators through the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine, to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president announced in a video shared Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe visit of the U.S. Senate delegation led by the leader of the Republican minority in the upper house of Congress Mitchell McConnell is a strong signal of bipartisan support for Ukraine from the United States Congress and the American people,\u201d Zelenskyy said on Telegram.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fi\">Republican Senators led by McConnell visit Zelenskyy in Kyiv. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YrhaSACFK3\">pic.twitter.com\/YrhaSACFK3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Diana Glebova (@DianaGlebova) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DianaGlebova\/status\/1525492645082152960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThank you for your leadership in helping us fight not only for our country, but also for democratic values and freedoms. We really appreciate it,\u201d Zelenskyy added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ResponsiveWrapper\">\n<aside class=\"InlineElement InlineElement--content-width InlineElement--desktop InlineImage\" aria-label=\"Image\">\n<p>The video shows McConnell, along with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, John Barrasso of Wyoming and John Cornyn of Texas, walking towards Zelenskyy through the Ukrainian capital and shaking his hand.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"Image aspect-ratio--parent InlineImage--image\"><\/figure>\n<p>It is not clear when the meeting took place or if the Senators are still in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>First lady Jill Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/08\/jill-biden-surprise-trip-ukraine-russia-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visited Ukraine<\/a> and met with Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska in a surprise trip Sunday. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/15\/two-gop-lawmakers-steve-daines-victoria-spartz-ukraine-war-zone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: GOP Lawmakers Steve Daines, Victoria Spartz Go Into Ukraine War Zone)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines, Republican Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz and Speaker of the House <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/01\/house-democrats-visit-ukraine-secret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/01\/house-democrats-visit-ukraine-secret\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1652627469145000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2CER1EkhM91solrEl5uuDu\">Nancy\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/01\/house-democrats-visit-ukraine-secret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/01\/house-democrats-visit-ukraine-secret\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1652627469145000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2CER1EkhM91solrEl5uuDu\">Pelosi<\/a>\u00a0have also gone to Ukraine to visit the country at war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden has not made any announcements about visiting Ukraine. Explaining why he has not visited, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/15\/fast-car-biden-ready-ukraine-wont-psaki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/15\/fast-car-biden-ready-ukraine-wont-psaki\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1652627469145000&#038;usg=AOvVaw26s_sSRIywKMa_oAwp1cLV\">remarked<\/a> \u201cYou\u2019re welcome, America. We need him to do a lot of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell led a group of Senators through the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine, to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president announced in a video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":1482983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}