Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a historic, virtual address to Congress on Wednesday, pleading with the U.S. to help stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and calling out President Joe Biden by name in English, saying “being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.”
A look at the two leaders at the center of the war in Ukraine and how they both rose to power, the difference in their leadership and what led to this moment in history.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced the Ukrainian president and led members in chanting, “Slava Ukraini” or “Glory to Ukraine.”
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“Glory to heroes,” Zelenskyy responded. “Thank you very much, Madame Speaker, Members of the Congress, ladies and gentlemen, Americans, friends, I’m proud to greet you from Ukraine from our capital city of Kyiv, a city that is under missile and airstrikes from Russian troops every day, but it doesn’t give up — and we have not even thought about it for a second,” he said.
PHOTO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in Kyiv, Ukraine, in this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, March 15, 2022.
Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP
Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in Kyiv, Ukraine, in this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, March 15, 2022.
In the emotional appeal, Zelenskyy asked Americans to put themselves in the shoes of Ukrainians by remembering Pearl Harbor “when your sky was black from the planes attacking you” and the Sept. 11 attacks, saying that “every day now for three weeks” Ukraine has seen death.
“Remember September the 11th, a terrible day in 2001 when evil tried to turn your cities, independent territories on battlefields, when innocent people were attacked from air, yes, just like no one else expected it, you could not stop it,” he said. “Our country experiences the same thing every day, right now at this moment, every night for three weeks now various Ukrainian cities — Mariupol and Kharkiv — Russia has turned the Ukrainian skies into a source of death for thousands of people.”
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