WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, appeared on Fox News Live Sunday to discuss his recent trip to Ukraine and the latest security developments in the region. Wicker warned that a potential invasion of Ukraine would be a devastating mistake by Russian president Vladimir Putin and that any incursion would be met with severe consequences.

“If we give the Ukrainians the tools they need, they will fight to the death and they'll fight block by block, house by house, and town by town to defend their country from going back under the thumb of Russia,” Wicker said. “When the war drags on or when they try to install some puppet as they tried to do in Afghanistan, they'll see the people rise up in resistance. And it would be, I think, the gravest mistake that Vladimir Putin has ever made.”

The Mississippi senator also discussed his recent visit to Ukraine, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy with a bipartisan delegation of Senators. The delegation affirmed Ukraine’s right to sovereignty and self-defense. Wicker said he also hoped to see more NATO countries, such as Germany, show increased resolve in standing up to Russia, as well as a U.S. move to sanction the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which is now pending approval by regulators.

“We’ve got a bunch of natural gas and energy in the United States that we would be glad to ramp up and supply to our friends in Europe and NATO. And we're a country that absolutely does not threaten them at all,” Wicker said. “I hope the message with this new government in Germany now is they're not quite so wedded to giving Russia this great foreign policy tool where 40% of their economy is determined by this Nord Stream 2 pipeline.”

Watch the Senator’s full interview with Fox News Live here. Read the Senator’s latest op-ed about Ukraine defense here. Learn more about Senator Wicker’s visit to Ukraine here, and read more about his most recent legislative effort to arm Ukraine against Russia here. Watch more of Senator Wicker’s recent interviews regarding Ukraine here.