"It's my hope that we [the US Congress] are going to be able to get it potentially… out of both bodies before we go home," Corker said at a Wednesday Foreign Policy Initiative conference, referring to his bill, the Ukraine Freedom Support Act.
Corker added that Ukraine must have the capability to utilize the materials they are provided. "You're talking about lethal support," he said. "We want them [Ukrainians] to demonstrate the capacity to be able to intelligently use what we would give them."
"We hope to run a hotline on it in the next short period of time," Corker added.
The senator is disappointed with the Obama administration's reluctance to supply Ukraine with lethal aid as well as its reluctance to share military intelligence with Kiev. Corker elaborated saying that Ukraine was "urged to move west" by the United States, but in the early months of 2014, the administration refused to share intelligence "because it would make us appear to be 'operational'."
The White House and State Department have recently said publicly that providing lethal support to the government in Kiev remains an option.
