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Zelensky calls on US to remember Pearl Harbour and 9/11: ‘Our country experiences the same every day’

President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the US to remember Pearl Harbour and the September 11 terrorist attacks as it sees the people of Ukraine attacked and killed by Russian forces.

The Ukrainian president told lawmakers in his wartime address to Congress on Wednesday that Ukraine “experiences the same every day” now as America did during its own darkest days.

“Remember Pearl Harbour. The terrible morning of December 7 1941 when your skies were black from the planes attacking. You remember it,” he said.

“September 11 – a terrible day in 2001 when evil tried to turn your cities, independent territories in battleground, when innocent people were attacked from air.

“Yes, just like nobody else expected it. You could not stop it.”

Mr Zelensky compared those attacks on the US – the surprise aerial attack by Japan on the Naval base Pearl Harbour in Hawaii and the 9/11 attacks where al-Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and one which landed in a field in Pennsylvania – to the killings of civilians and troops in Ukraine every day for the last almost three weeks by Russian forces.

“Our country experiences the same every day right now -at this moment, every night, for three weeks now,” he said.

Mr Zelensky’s address came less than two weeks after he first spoke to US House and Senate lawmakers back on 5 March and almost three weeks to the day that Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine on 24 February.

Since then, the Ukrainian president has repeatedly called on the US and other Nato allies to establish a no-fly zone over the country – a request that has been turned down by the Biden administration amid concerns it would escalate tensions between Russia and the US.

President Joe Biden is expected to announce a new package of military assistance and an extra $800m in security assistance for Ukraine following Mr Zelensky’s speech.

Xural.com

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