Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address the U.S. Congress on Wednesday — the next stop as the actor-turned-turned-wartime leader uses the Western world’s great legislative bodies as a global stage to help his country.
will be among the most important in a unique and very public strategy in his fight to stop Russia.
Instead, Zelenskyy’s video appearances are beaming the boyish but unshaven president into households and smartphones around the world as he speaks from undisclosed locations in Kyiv while Russia bombards his country, a heroic figure at the center of what many view as the biggest security threat to Europe since World War II.When Zelenskyy is live-streamed into the U.S.
Zelenskyy wants the West to “close the sky” — a rallying cry now in pop culture — to prevent the Russian airstrikes that are devastating his country, perhaps most dramatically in the attack last week on aCongress has been ready to pushAt first, the White House resisted calls from Congress to ban Russian oil imports to the U.S. Then it hit the brakes on legislation to revoke Russia’s normal trade status — before going ahead on both.
"We think the United States needs to do more," said Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., returning from a weekend visit with other lawmakers to Poland."We need to do what we can to facilitate the delivery of the Russian-made MiGs to the Ukrainian fighter pilots so that they can wage this war themselves.”Congress has already approved $13.
“The Congress, our country and the world are in awe of the people of Ukraine,” said Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in a statement Monday announcing the address.
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