Volodimirs Zelenskis
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky repeatedly called on U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine or at least to send destroyers to Ukraine.
“Russia has turned Ukraine’s sky into a source of death for thousands of people,” Zelensky said in a speech to the US Congress from Kiev.
The bombing of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which has lasted for almost three weeks, is a terror that Europe has not experienced for 80 years, Zelensky emphasized.
If the closure of the skies is too demanded, then the United States should send destroyers to Ukraine, the president of Ukraine said.
“The fate of our country is being decided,” Zelensky said, referring to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, Martin Luther King and Mount Rushmore.
The United States and other NATO countries have repeatedly rejected a proposal to ban flights over Ukraine, citing what could lead NATO to direct confrontation with Russia.
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