"Enough talk. People are dying. Send them the planes that they need."

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) pressed the Biden administration on Thursday to send MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine after the Pentagon rejected the idea fearing it would be perceived as a direct NATO escalation of the war.

"We're not going to stop the killing in Ukraine until we in NATO fear Putin less than he fears us," Sen. Romney said in a press conference on Capitol Hill.

"It's time for him to fear what we might do because, frankly, his military is bogged down in Ukraine, and if NATO were to get activated in some way by his provocation, why, obviously, he'd be a very, very weak position." close