A former Louisiana congressman is recounting his recent visit to war-torn Ukraine. Charles Boustany told Jim Engster on Talk Louisiana that on his final day in the country, May 23rd, the area in Kyiv where he was staying came under attack, and to say that it was a harrowing experience is putting it very mildly.
“Actually, about midway through it, I was starting to question whether we were going to survive. The explosions were so close and rattling,” Boustany said.
The attack left four people dead and dozens of others injured.
Boustany was in Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and to observe some of the country’s humanitarian efforts. He says the images from Ukraine that Americans see do the situation in that country no justice.
“Atrocities such as not been seen since World War II. And so we, as Americans, I believe, need to be engaged there. We need to be assisting them a lot more than we are now,” Boustany noted.
Boustany was joined in Ukraine by another former Republican congressman, Geoff Davis of Kentucky. Boustany says it seems as if the U.S. has forgotten about Ukraine since the new administration took office.
“There has been no senior administration official there since the Trump administration came into office. No one from congress has gone. And so the fact that myself and my former colleague in congress went, on our own dime, meant a lot to them,” Boustany explained.