The Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska appealed to the U.S. Wednesday to help ‘children with strollers’ avoid being hit by Russian rockets.
‘Those are Russia’s hunger games—hunting for peaceful people,’ Zelenska said as she displayed of a three-year-old now using prosthetic limbs after being caught in one of Russia’s indiscriminate attacks.
They will not broadcast this news on their television. Zelenska stated that this is why Zelenska was showing the document to her.
Volodymyr Zelensky is the Ukrainian President’s wife. The first woman to be married to a foreign leader addresses the U.S. Congress from the Capitol.
In an address to Congress on Wednesday, Olena Zelenska, the Ukrainian First Lady, pleaded for air missile defense systems from America to protect ‘children walking’ from Russian rockets.
‘Those are Russia’s hunger games—hunting for peaceful people,’ Zelenska said as she displayed of a three-year-old now using prosthetic limbs after being caught in one of Russia’s indiscriminate attacks
House Majority Leader Steny Hyer, Kevin McCaerthy and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, listen via headphones to Zelenska’s address
Zelenska stated, ‘I don’t want to address your country as a first-lady but as a mother and daughter.’ “An unprovoked, invasive terrorist war against my country is being waged.” She added that Russia was destroying our citizens.
After outlining the terrible conditions her nation is facing, she made a plea to get more weapons.
‘While Russia kills, America saves,’ Zelenska said. “I am asking now for something that I wouldn’t mind to ask.” I’m asking for air defense systems and weapons. To ensure that rockets don’t kill strollers-bound children.
The weapons wouldn’t be used to “wage war against somebody else’s territory”, but rather to “protect one’s house and allow for the right to rise from sleep in it.”
I know you are aware [legislators]In a week, I will leave for the usual congressional recess. Thank you for listening to me. Your decisions should be swift.
Zelenska gets to know U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Five months since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, billions have been donated by the U.S. to Ukraine in both humanitarian and military assistance. U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine: $8 Billion, $2.2B in the month just ended, Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin said that the U.S. is sending four more high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine, bringing the total up to 16.
Russian forces have taken control of about half the country’s Donbas region, in east Ukraine. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered this week that his army prioritize the destruction of Ukraine’s long range missiles and artillery arms after Western-supplied weapons had been used to down Russia’s supply line.
Earlier this week a bipartisan group of six senators wrote a letter to Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley asking them to hurry shipments of medium- and long-range air defense systems to Ukraine as appropriated by Congress in May.
Congress approved a $40 Billion aid package to Ukraine on May 19, which also included $20 billion for military spending.