United States.- The President of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenski, called his American counterpart Joe Biden to “be the leader of peace” and to reconsider his request to create an exclusion zone aerial over Ukraine.
“You are the leader of a nation, of your great nation. I want you to be the leader of the world. To be the leader of the world is to be the leader of peace,” he said, in English, during a speech despite the fact that until now , Biden has refused to impose a no-fly zone on the grounds that it would constitute an escalation.
Even so shortly after confirmed an additional military aid of 800 million dollars (16 thousand 540 million 296 thousand pesos) to Ukraine, which means an “unprecedented” package of 1 billion in a week to help the Ukrainian army defend itself against the Russian troops that invade the country.
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“At the request” of President Zelensky, “we are helping Ukraine acquire additional and longer-range anti-aircraft defense systems,” he said, specifying that the aid would include drones.
Zelensky was speaking for the first time before the full US Congress, as he has done before the parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada.
In a grave and at times fiery tone, the Ukrainian president implored the United States and its Western allies to do more to save your country from the Russian invasion, reminding them of the darkest hours of their history.
“In your great history, you have pages that allow you to understand the Ukrainians,” “remember Pearl Harbor, that terrible morning of December 7, 1941, when the sky was darkened by the planes attacking you,” he said, referring to the attack. aerial attack on the naval base that led to the entry of the United States into World War II.
“Remember September 11, that terrible day in 2001”he claimed.
More than three weeks after Russia launched a war that has killed hundreds of civilians and left three million displaced, Zelensky addressed Congress from an unknown location in kyiv, telling them that his country was battling a “terror that Europe has not lived for 80 years”.
remembered that more than a hundred children have died, “whose heart has stopped beating” because of the war. The 44-year-old leader told congressmen that he doesn’t see “the meaning of life if he can’t stop death.”
The comedian-turned-wartime leader paraphrased civil rights activist Martin Luther King’s “I Had a Dream” speech to call on congressmen for a no-fly zone.
“I have a need, a need to protect our sky. I need your decision, your help.” “Is it too much to ask to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine to save people? Is it too much to ask for a humanitarian no-fly zone?” he added, before showing an emotional video of his country under the bombs.
At the end of the video was the inscription: “Close the sky over Ukraine.”
The Democratic chairman of the powerful Senate intelligence committee, Mark Warner, said he was “incredibly moved” by Zelensky’s speech, but did not endorse an eventual no-fly zone.
Short of supporting a closure of the skies over Ukraine, many congressmen back Zelensky’s pleas for Washington to help negotiate the shipment of Soviet-style weapons to Ukraine, including Poland’s MiG fighter jets and ground-to-air missile systems. air S-300.
Zelensky received a standing ovation from all the congressmen, who wore blue and yellow brooches, the colors of the Ukrainian flag, and also cheered Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, seated in the second row.
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“Slava Ukraina” (“Glory to Ukraine”), said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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