The House Speaker met with the Ukrainian president on Wednesday as the NATO Summit is underway in Washington D.C.
Mike Johnson and Volodymyr Zelenskyy sat at the Capitol for a closed-door meeting to discuss U.S. aid for Ukraine 's defense against Russia . Zelenskyy is meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
Johnson has wielded the aid as leverage in legislative negotiations with Democrats since taking the gavel U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Czech President Petr Pavel, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo all used the word "irreversible" to describe the way forward for Ukraine as NATO leaders gathered in D.C.
Zelenskyy, fearing his country would otherwise be left to fight a stronger Russia indefinitely, has battled for at least a firm guarantee from NATO that Ukraine can join the military alliance. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg underlined that Ukraine will not join the alliance's ranks immediately. But he insisted that must happen after the war is over to ensure that Russia never attacks Ukraine again.
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