Speaker Nancy Pelosi pledges U.S. support to Ukraine in person
As Trevor Noah prepared to poke fun at Fox News, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a U.S. delegation met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for three hours. This video featuring Speaker Nancy Pelosi popped up this morning amidst clips from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner #WHCD.
“Our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done,” Pelosi told the Ukrainian president. Pelosi is the highest-ranking U.S. government official to meet with Zelensky since Russia invaded the country in February.
Pelosi walked the streets of Kyiv with several House Democratic lawmakers, including Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (N.Y.) and Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (Mass.). The delegation, which met Zelensky on Saturday evening local time, later left Ukraine for Poland to meet with President Andrzej Duda. In Kyiv, Zelensky awarded Pelosi with the Order of Princess Olga, a decoration bestowed upon women who have made outstanding contributions to Ukraine. “Thank you for helping to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our state!” he wrote on Twitter.
In southeastern Ukraine, civilian evacuations from a steel plant in Mariupol that has been the last base for Ukrainian fighters in the besieged port city were expected to continue Sunday, after a group of about 20 women and children were allowed to leave under a cease-fire that began Saturday. Ukrainian officials think up to 1,000 people have taken shelter at the complex, which has been pummeled by Russian strikes in the Kremlin’s bid to secure Mariupol, an industrial center on the Sea of Azov that is seen as a strategic prize for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It’s hard to imagine those civilians leaving under a cease-fire without the world press shining a light on what is happening in Mariupol.
What the press does is important. If only they all took their responsibilities each day as seriously as Noah suggests.
Consider how insane the world is. Right now.
On the Pelosi visit, Axios adds, “During the meeting, Zelensky conveyed the clear need for continued security, economic and humanitarian assistance from the U.S. and the congressional delegation assured him that additional American support is on its way, according to Pelosi’s office.”
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