Zelenskyy thanked Pelosi for the support, saying, “we’ll win together.” “We are here to say to you that we are with you until the fight is over,” Pelosi said in the video. Gregory Meeks, D-New York and Bill Keating, D-Mass. Pelosi posted a video to her Twitter account Sunday that showed her standing shoulder to shoulder with Zelenskyy, members of Congress – including representatives Jim McGovern, D-Mass. The visit came as some women and children were evacuated from a steel plant in Mariupol and as a Russian rocket attack destroyed an airport runway in Odesa, a Black Sea port on Ukraine's southern border.
She is the most senior American lawmaker to visit the country since Russia launched the war more than two months ago. Pelosi, second in line to succeed the president, provided the latest U.S.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a congressional delegation that met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv as Ukraine continued to weather bombardment by Russian military forces on its southern coast and eastern parts of the country. “Honestly, I do not know.'' Pelosi meets with Zelenskyy in Kyiv “What could be Russia’s strategic success in this war?” Zelenskyy said. “The targets they choose prove once again that the war against Ukraine is a war of extermination for the Russian army,” Zelenskyy said, adding that Russia will gain nothing from the damage but will further isolate itself from the rest of the world.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pointed out Sunday in his nightly address that Russian shelling had hit food, grain and fertilizer warehouses, as well as residential neighborhoods in the Kharkiv, Donbas and other regions. President Joe Biden has accused Russia of "genocide'' in its invasion of Ukraine, whose own president chose another damning word in describing Moscow's means "extermination.'' Zelenskyy says Russia is fighting a war of 'extermination' ►Undeterred by air raid sirens and warnings to shelter at home, people in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia visited cemeteries Sunday, when Ukrainians observed the Orthodox Christian day of the dead. ►Poland’s armed forces said Sunday that weeks-long military exercises involving thousands of NATO soldiers have begun in the country. Francis, in what has become a weekly plea, said he weeps thinking of the destruction of Mariupol and how the city has been “barbarously bombed and destroyed.” ►Pope Francis, speaking during his traditional noontime prayer, again appealed for peace in Ukraine.
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