Olena Zelenska makes emotional appeal to Congress and asks for weapons to claim ‘joint great victory’ in war against Russia
The Ukrainian first lady, Olena Zelenska, appealed to US lawmakers on Tuesday to provide more help to her country as it struggles against a five-month-long Russian invasion she called 'Russia’s Hunger Games', saying US weapons could help assure a 'joint great victory'.
'We remain completely broken when our world is destroyed by war. Tens of thousands of such worlds have been destroyed in ,” she said, through a translator, in an emotional 15-minute speech to members of the House and Senate. The wife of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, showed videos of children she said had been wounded or killed, including a three-year-old boy now learning to use prosthetic limbs
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