Zelensky pleads for help to U.S. Congress: ‘We need you right now’
In an appeal for assistance to Congress on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky cited Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attacks, saying, “We need you right now,” and asking again for a no-fly zone.
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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY THROUGH INTERPRETER: In your great history, you have pages that would allow you to understand Ukrainians, understand us now when we need you right now. Remember Pearl Harbor, terrible morning of December 7, 1941 when your sky was Black from the planes attacking you. Just remember it.
Remember September the 11th, a terrible day in 2001 when evil tried to turn your cities independent territories in battlefields, when innocent people were attacked from air. Yes, just like no one else expected it, you could not stop it. Our country experienced the same every day right now at this moment, every night for three weeks now.
Various Ukrainian cities, Odessa, and Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Sumy, [INAUDIBLE] and Lviv, Mariupol and [INAUDIBLE]. Russia has turned the Ukrainian sky into a source of death for thousands of people. Russian troops have already fired nearly 1,000 missiles at Ukraine, countless bombs. They use drones to kill us with precision.
This is a terror that Europe has not seen for 80 years. And we are asking for a reply for an answer to this terror from the whole world. Is this a lot to ask for? To create a no-fly zone over Ukraine to save people. Is this too much to ask? Humanitarian no-fly zone, something that Russia would not be able to terrorize our free cities.
