Ukraine President Zelenskyy in his deal with to the joint consultation of the USA Congress on Wednesday, invoked 9/11, Pearl Harbor bombings to request a no-fly zone over Ukraine amid intense Russian assaults.
Zelenskyy reminded the USA Congress of the Pearl Harbor assault through Japan in 1941, and the Sept. 11 terrorist assaults through al-Qaeda in 2001 and mentioned Ukraine is below a equivalent scenario following relentless Russian assaults for over 3 weeks.
“I’ve a necessity. If that [no-fly zone] is an excessive amount of to invite, supply Ukraine with fighter jets. We all know what sort of protection machine we’d like. S-300 and different equivalent methods…Within the darkest time for our nation, for the entire of Europe, I name on you to do extra” he mentioned, claiming that Russian troops have became the ‘skies right into a supply of dying’.
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“Nowadays the Ukrainian persons are protecting now not best Ukraine. We’re preventing for the values of Europe and the arena, sacrificing our lives within the identify of the longer term. That’s why lately the American persons are serving to now not simply Ukraine, however the international, to stay the planet alive, to stay justice in historical past,” he added.
Zelenskyy mentioned Ukraine is below full-scale Russian invasion that Europe has now not noticed because the 2d International Battle. He mentioned the Russian invasion was once about extra than simply Ukraine, it was once about democracy, about freedom, and about selection.
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“At the moment, the future of our nation is being made up our minds. Whether or not Ukrainians can be loose. Russia didn’t simply assault our towns, it went on a brutal offensive towards our values, our proper to are living freely,” Zelenskyy mentioned.
The Ukrainian president concluded his speech in English, and mentioned, “Because the chief of the country I’m addressing President Biden, you’re the chief of the country. I want you to be the chief of the arena. Being the chief of the arena approach to be the chief of peace.”
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