President Volodymyr Zelensky makes an appeal for more aid and follows up on US President Joe Biden’s request to Congress for a $37.4 billion package for Ukraine. Follow updates here.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made his second wartime visit to Washington on Thursday , and he warned lawmakers that his country would fall to Russia if the United States curtailed the military and financial aid that helped Ukraine withstand a brutal onslaught but had ultimately not given the Ukrainians an upper hand.
Zelensky’s blunt warning comes as Ukraine struggles to break through Russian front lines. On Thursday , Russia launched a missile attack on cities across Ukraine, including Kyiv, the capital, hours after Zelensky denounced Russia’s “criminal and unprovoked aggression” against his country before the UN Security Council.
Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Joe Biden and US first lady Jill Biden stand for a photo at the White House in Washington, DC on Friday .Zelensky was in Washington to make an appeal for more aid and to follow up on President Joe Biden’s request to Congress for a $US24 billion package of military and humanitarian funding, bucking concerns from congressional Republicans who have promised not to “write a blank check” for the war.
“If we don’t get the aid, we will lose the war,” Zelensky said in a meeting on Capitol Hill with dozens of senators, as recounted by Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader. In a show of bipartisan comity, Zelensky, dressed in olive fatigues, was escorted by Schumer and Senator Mitch McConnell.
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