Ukrainian President Zelensky spoke live to Congress Wednesday morning and in his emotional appeal, he pleaded with Biden to be the ‘leader of the world’ and compared their war horror to Pearl Harbor and 9/11. During his speech, he showed a heartbreaking video of his country being bombed, with children and pregnant women dead on the ground.
When he spoke to English Parliament he invoked Winston Churchill; in addressing the US Zelensky echoed great Americans such as Martin Luther King when he said;
‘I need to protect our skies. I need your help, which means the same you feel when you hear I have a dream,’ he said through a translator.
Urging America to do more, he once again made an impassioned plea to enforce a no-fly zone over his country. (The U.S. has refused up to this point over fears it would bring about World War 111.)
‘We need you right now,’ Zelensky said, adding: ‘I call on you to do more.’
In his dramatic finish, Zelensky switched to English, saying haltingly :
‘Being the leader of the means to be the leader of peace,’ he said in halting, accented English.
‘I am almost 45 years old. Today when the hearts of more than 100 children stopped beating, I see no sense in life,’ he added.
‘I am addressing the President Biden. You are the leader of the nation, of your great nation. I wish you be the leader of the world. Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace,’ he said in his closing.
Congress gave him a standing ovation.