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Dressed in an olive green military T-shirt, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered remarks to members of the U.S. Congress in an extraordinary address on Wednesday morning that had echoes of Winston Churchill’s rousing speech at the U.S. Capitol in 1941, at the very height of World War II.⁠
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“We need you right now right now,” Zelensky told American lawmakers through a translator. At one point in his address, Zelensky — a former actor and producer — played an expertly produced video, scored to plaintive string music, that showed how, within a matter of weeks, Russia had turned Ukraine into a ruined landscape of death and destruction.⁠
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With fears mounting that Europe is on the cusp of a third world war, Zelensky portrayed the invasion of Ukraine that Russia launched last month as “a brutal offensive against our values — basic human values.”⁠
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Zelensky added on Wednesday that he was “grateful” for the aid Ukraine has already received, as well as for sanctions against Russia. “However, now, it is true, in the darkest time for our country, for the whole of Europe, I call on you to do more.” He asked for sanctions against both businesses and individuals to be expanded, including against all Russian lawmakers. Those sanctions should keep expanding, Zelensky said, until what he called “the Russian military machine” left Ukraine. “Peace is more important than income,” he argued.⁠
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After the video of the destruction that has been visited on Ukraine concluded — with a message to “close the sky over Ukraine” with a no-fly zone — Zelensky appeared again on screen, concluding his address to Congress in English, invoking the status of the United States as a superpower. “Being the leader of the world,” he said, “means to be the leader of peace.”⁠
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✍️: Yahoo News⁠
📷: House Television via AP

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