White House faces growing impatience on Capitol Hill as calls to help Ukraine get louder ahead of Zelensky's speech

As Zelensky pleas for more assistance against Russia, Biden is facing intense pressure from US lawmakers who want him to do more and do it quickly

Those calls are poised to only grow louder on Wednesday after members of Congress hear fresh pleas for assistance directly from one man who is hunkered down in Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky is set to deliver a rare wartime speech to Congress in the morning, less than two weeks after the Ukrainian leader held a virtual meeting with US lawmakers.

In what the White House would later refer to as a"temporary breakdown in communication" last week, the Polish government proposed sending jets to a US Air Force base in Germany, and for those planes to then be transported to Ukraine -- only to have that idea swiftly rejected by US officials. The logistical challenges -- as well as the risk of a direct US-Russia confrontation -- was too great, the administration warned.

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