Klobuchar back at MN State Fair after secret trip to Ukraine

It’s safe to say U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar is the only Minnesotan who has been to the State Fair last week and this week with a trip to a war zone sandwiched in between.

She traveled to Ukraine to show bipartisan U.S. support for Ukraine, to get an update on the war effort and “to bring back to Minnesota, no better place than the State Fair, what he told me. President Zelensky is incredibly grateful for the humanitarian help which has fed their people. For the economic help and mostly for the military help. American weapons have performed.”

Klobuchar was in Ukraine on Tuesday with Ohio Senator Rob Portman meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and senior Ukrainian defense officials in Kyiv.

“We got good reports today from the defense minister as well as President Zelensky,” Klobuchar said while in Ukraine on Tuesday. “A lot of this has to do with the incredible bravery of the Ukrainians and their strategy and planning, but also the weaponry they have received from America and around the world.”

Klobuchar says the travel to a war zone was difficult and time-consuming. She says she didn’t sleep in a bed for three nights on a trip that also included a stop in Poland to meet with U.S. military forces.

On her trip back to the State Fair just two days later, Klobuchar said she’s sharing with Minnesotans what she learned and why no one here should take their freedom for granted.

“That’s what I’m telling people all day here at the Fair,” she told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS. “What we have, this ability to go where we want and say what we want, is not Vladimir Putin’s world. This guy is basically invaded a sovereign land. He has killed journalists. He has killed dissidents and he’s going to just keep going if we don’t stop him.”