Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said first lady Melania Trump should receive some praise for President Donald Trump‘s pivot on Ukraine in its war with Russia.

“Well, I’m glad that the president has pivoted on Ukraine,” Bacon said in an interview on NewsNation Sunday. “I think we owe Melania some thanks here. Even the president said that his wife reminds him every day that Russia is bombing Ukrainian cities every night.”

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Donald Trump has grown increasingly critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a ceasefire in the war has not been worked out, and Russia continues to bomb Ukraine. The Trump administration in recent days agreed to again transfer defense weapons to Ukraine and threatened to impose further sanctions on Russia’s trading partners within 50 days.

The president described his current relationship with Putin, and Melania Trump’s reaction, on Monday.

“I go home and tell the first lady, ‘I spoke with Vladimir today. We had a wonderful conversation.’ She says, ‘Oh really? Another [Ukrainian] city was just hit,’” Donald Trump said last week.

Bacon, a centrist Republican and staunch supporter of Ukraine, praised the president’s decision to send weapons again but indicated he is looking for more.

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“I think we should have total moral clarity here. Russia is the invader. They’re bombing the cities. And what will happen if Russia prevails in Ukraine? And we should have this clarity. We know Moldova will likely follow immediately. Georgia and Azerbaijan are very vulnerable,” Bacon said.

“If we fail in Ukraine, it’s going to cost us a lot more in the future. And Ukraine, how do we get here? They wanted to be aligned with the West. They want to be democracy. They want free markets. They’d like to be in the EU. And Russia couldn’t tolerate that,” he continued.