<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1658340060571,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017b-c08e-d8fe-afff-f79f16230000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1658340060571,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017b-c08e-d8fe-afff-f79f16230000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
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Zelenska focused on the human toll of the five-month conflict in her brief speech, especially the children and families who have been killed, before asking the members to increase assistance for weapons. She denounced the attacks as “Russia’s Hunger Games, hunting for peaceful people and peaceful cities of Ukraine.”
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“I am asking for weapons,” she said. “Weapons that would not be used to wage a war on somebody else’s land, but to protect someone’s home and the right to wake up in that home.”
She specifically asked for air defense systems and for Congress to move on the funding before the August recess. Zelenska said that while U.S. lawmakers had the blessing of predictability that could persuade them to take up the issue after the recess, Ukrainians didn’t have the luxury of waiting.
“America, unfortunately, knows from its own experience what terrorist attacks are and has always sought to defeat terrorism,” she said. “Help us to stop this terror against Ukrainians. And this will be our joint great victory in the name of life, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness.”
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Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, went into hiding along with their two children at the outbreak of the war. She recently has taken a more visible role in the war effort, including advocating abroad. Her trip to America has also included meetings with the U.S. Agency for International Development and first lady Jill Biden.
