President Biden is expected to address the nation on Wednesday morning to share what the United States is doing to help Ukraine, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Congress and the president to approve a no-fly zone. by NATO on Ukraine and to provide more. air defense capabilities.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Zelenskyy’s speech was “incredibly effective” and said, “I think the message to President Biden is that he needs to step up his game.”
Lawmakers, including McConnell, want the president to do more, especially when it comes to providing air defense systems and bringing fighter jets to Ukrainians. The Biden administration has rejected the idea of transferring planes because it is concerned that Russia would consider it an escalating measure.
Zelenskyy addressed hundreds of members of the House and Senate on Wednesday morning, thanking the United States for its help in the unprovoked invasion of Russia, but urging Congress and President Biden to do more to save the lives of the people. Ukrainian. The Ukrainian president renewed its request for a NATO-mandated no-fly zone over Ukraine, or at least more air defense systems and technology such as Russian-made S-300 surface-to-air missile systems. He had a direct message for President Biden: “To be the leader of the world is to be the leader of peace.”
Some lawmakers, such as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, have rejected a no-fly zone, but are still calling for more support for Ukraine.
“An exclusion zone wants to drastically increase the risks of American pilots in direct combat with Russian pilots, and that is an unacceptable risk of climbing,” Cruz told reporters, adding that there is still “a as much as we can do, less than put Americans on. ” advocates for giving Ukraine “lethal weapons and, in particular, fighter jets,” and has criticized President Biden for “personally vetoing providing fighter jets that Ukraine is desperately asking for.”
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Greg Meeks, a Democrat, said Congress would stay with Zelenskyy, as Americans.
“After seeing and hearing President Zelensky, if we don’t unite as Americans and with our NATO allies, that helps Putin. It’s time for unity,” Meeks said.
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