Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky known as on the U.S. to take additional motion in opposition to Russia with extra sanctions, and evoked the September 11 assaults, throughout a speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.
Zelensky's feedback got here as battle continues to rage in Ukraine after Russian navy forces invaded the nation greater than two weeks in the past. Under are among the key takeaways from Zelensky's speech to Congress.
No-fly zone
Zelensky repeated his name for the U.S. to implement a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
"Russia has turned the Ukrainian sky right into a supply of loss of life for 1000's of individuals," he stated. "To create a no-fly zone over Ukraine to save lots of folks, is that this an excessive amount of to ask?
"You understand how a lot will depend on the battlefield, on the flexibility to make use of plane, highly effective sturdy aviation to guard our folks, our freedom, our land, plane that may assist Ukraine, assist Europe. You understand they exist and you've got them, however they're on Earth not within the Ukrainian sky...I would like to guard our sky."
Graphic video
Zelensky additionally confirmed a video that appeared to point out assaults by Russian forces in Ukraine. The video was titled Shut the Sky, and started by displaying an aerial view of quite a few Ukrainian cities, similar to Kyiv and Kharkiv.
Because the video continued, it started to point out what gave the impression to be Russian assaults on the cities in addition to Ukrainian navy forces trying to assist civilians that have been injured in the course of the assaults.
Following Zelensky's speech, Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy stated that the graphic video was "one of the shifting moments," of the speech.
Evoked 9/11 and Pearl Harbor
Zelensky known as on Individuals to recollect the assault on Pearl Harbor that led to the U.S. getting into World Battle II, in addition to the September 11 terrorist assaults.
"Bear in mind Pearl Harbor, horrible morning of December 7, 1941, when your sky was black from the planes attacking you," Zelensky stated. "Simply bear in mind it, bear in mind, September the eleventh, a horrible day in 2001 when evil tried to show U.S. cities into battlefields, when harmless folks have been attacked from air, identical to no person else anticipated it and you possibly can not cease it. Our nation experiences the identical, daily, proper now at this second."
Requires extra sanctions
Whereas the U.S. has already imposed quite a few sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, Zelensky stated that extra wanted to be executed to cease the "Russian navy machine."
"New packages of sanctions are wanted continually, each week, till the Russian navy machine stops," Zelensky stated, including that the U.S. ought to sanction all Russian Federation politicians that haven't "reduce ties with those that are liable for the aggression in the direction of Ukraine."
Message to Biden
On the conclusion of his speech, Zelensky made a plea to U.S. President Joe Biden.
"I want you to be the chief of the world. Being the chief of the world means being the chief of peace," Zelensky stated.
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