Tim Kaine actually said...

I think the new Ukrainian Government has done a good job of making clear its concern about Ukrainian citizens, west and east, across the who...

unless, as this committee voted quite some time ago in a bipartisan fashion to arm the vetted Syrian moderate rebels, nothing will change in...

Putin has cast aside both international law and his nation's own commitments to respect the territorial integrity of the Ukraine.

So the surprise was the timing rather than that they actually took this step.