House speaker leads first US Congressional delegation to visit Ukraine since Russian invasion. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets Ukrainian President Zelensky ...
Last week, the Biden administration asked Congress to pass a $33 billion aid package for Ukraine, including more than $20 billion in new military and security assistance. We are on a frontier of freedom and your fight is a fight for everyone. “We believe that we are visiting you to say thank you for your fight for freedom.
A U.S. congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised the courage of the Ukrainian people in remarks during a visit to Poland on Sunday.
She added that the delegation brought Zelenskyy "a message of appreciation from the American people for his leadership." Our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done," Pelosi added. "It's also a war against the world's most vulnerable." "We have to make sure the Ukrainians have what they need to win. Pelosi and a half-dozen U.S. lawmakers met for three hours late Saturday with Zelenskyy and his top aides to get a first-hand assessment of the war effort to date. Poland has received more than 3 million refugees from Ukraine since Russia launched its war on Feb. 24. With the war dragging into its third month, the measure was designed to signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin that U.S. weaponry and other forms of assistance weren't going away. "We are on a frontier of freedom and your fight is a fight for everyone. Her previously unannounced visit came just days after Moscow bombed the Ukrainian capital while the U.N. secretary-general was there. What we have seen in the last two months is their ferocity, their intense pride, their ability to fight and their ability to win if they have the support to do so." "We were proud to convey to him the message of unity from the Congress of the United States, a message of appreciation from the American people for his leadership and admiration for the people of Ukraine for their courage," Pelosi said. "This is a struggle of freedom against tyranny," said Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. "And in that struggle, Ukraine is on the front lines."
The U.N. is helping to evacuate the remaining civilians, officials said Sunday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the most senior U.S. official to visit Kyiv ...
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made an unannounced trip to the Ukrainian capital on Saturday, becoming the most senior United States official to meet with ...
The order bearing her name is awarded to women who have achieved significant success in politics and society -- the personification in Ukraine of female strength. Zelensky stressed the importance of the financial assistance in his meeting with Pelosi and the other lawmakers. "The signals that the United States and President Biden are giving today are very important. That law was originally created to help forces fighting Nazi Germany and reflects the urgency in Congress to support the Ukrainian armed forces. "America stands with Ukraine, we stand with Ukraine until victory is won, and we stand with NATO." And so our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done."
Pelosi, who met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the highest-ranking U.S. official to make the trip to the country since Russia invaded.
Pelosi spent “just over three hours on the ground in Kyiv,” according to CNN, before traveling to Poland to meet with President Andrzej Duda and other top officials. “Nothing is going to decrease, everything is going to increase,” Meeks said. Meeting with Zelenskyy, Pelosi told the Ukrainian president, “Our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done.” As of last month, it also appeared unlikely that President Joe Biden—whom Zelenskyy has requested a visit from—or Vice President Kamala Harris would make a similar trip given the risks. “While other groups of lawmakers plan to travel to nations bordering the conflict like Poland during the upcoming House recess, none planned to travel directly into the active war zone,” according to Politico, which noted that other U.S lawmakers have visited the country in unofficial capacities. Nancy Pelosi paid a publicly unannounced visit to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the weekend and, in doing so, became the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Ukraine since Russia invaded in February. The speaker of the House led an official congressional delegation to the capital of Kyiv on Saturday, the first of its kind since the war broke out.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., became the highest ranking U.S. official to visit Ukraine on Sunday.
She described meeting Mr Zelensky as a “great honour” and said they had discussions around “security, humanitarian assistance and economic assistance and ...
So our commitment is to be here for you until the fight is done.” If they’re making threats you cannot back down. The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has vowed the US is “there for the fight” after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv in a significant display of continuing support.
The US House speaker met Ukraine's president during a visit to the country's embattled capital, Kyiv.