{"id":15975,"date":"2024-03-29T21:04:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/zelenskyy-asks-for-more-ukraine-aid\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T21:04:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:34:44","slug":"zelenskyy-asks-for-more-ukraine-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/zelenskyy-asks-for-more-ukraine-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy Asks for More Ukraine Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to ask for more aid to Ukraine as it continues its war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke with @SpeakerJohnson and thanked him personally, both parties, the American people, and President Biden for their critical support of Ukraine since the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI briefed Speaker Johnson on the battlefield situation, specifically the dramatic increase in Russia\u2019s air terror. Last week alone, 190 missiles, 140 \u2018Shahed\u2019 drones, and 700 guided aerial bombs were launched at Ukrainian cities and communities. Ukraine\u2019s largest hydroelectric power plant has gone offline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He emphasizes that \u201cquick passage of US aid to Ukraine by Congress is vital.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpeakerJohnson<\/a> and thanked him personally, both parties, the American people, and President Biden for their critical support of Ukraine since the start of Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n<p>I briefed Speaker Johnson on the battlefield situation, specifically the\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Volodymyr Zelenskyy \/ \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440 \u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 (@ZelenskyyUa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1773385494941839632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>While Johnson is not opposed to further aid to the country, he declared Ukraine aid will only come if it is paired with funding for the U.S. border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI reiterated to [Zelensky] that we stand with him and against Putin\u2019s brutal invasion,\u201d Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/speaker-johnson-maintains-no-ukraine-aid-without-southern-border-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in December. \u201cThe American people stand for freedom and they\u2019re on the right side of this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have asked the White House since the day that I was handed the gavel as speaker for clarity. We need clear articulation of the strategy to allow Ukraine to win,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd thus far, their responses have been insufficient, they have not provided us the clarity and the detail that we requested over and over since literally 24 hours after I was handed the gavel as Speaker of the House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the Biden administration seems to be asking for is billions of additional dollars with no appropriate oversight, no clear strategy to win, and none of the answers that I think the American people are owed,\u201d he stated. \u201cThe border is an absolute catastrophe. And this is because of the policies of this White House and this administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/zelenskyy-asks-for-more-ukraine-aid\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to ask for more aid to Ukraine as it continues its war with Russia. \u201cI spoke with @SpeakerJohnson and thanked him personally, both parties, the American people, and President Biden for their critical support of Ukraine since the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion,\u201d Zelenskyy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}