The following letter was sent on October 30 to Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, both Democrats representing Illinois in the U.S. Senate. It is also to be sent to all members of the House of Representatives from Illinois.
On behalf of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Illinois Division, we write to express our dismay and condemnation of the recent attacks on Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who is now accused as a possible spy and a traitor exercising dual loyalties.
We state our support of a U.S. Army officer and war hero, a top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, who came to the United States as a 3-year-old boy from Ukraine, and dedicated his life to service to his country as a U.S. officer in multiple overseas tours, including South Korea and Germany, and was deployed to Iraq for combat operations, where he was wounded in an explosive device attack and awarded a Purple Heart.