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Zelensky Zooms with US Senate, House members ahead of debate on $10B aid package

The full Senate and the 80-member House Ukrainian Caucus[?!] were invited to speak with Zelensky on the video call, the first time lawmakers are able to speak with the embattled leader since Russian President Vladimir Putin began his invasion 10 days ago, according to The Hill.
Meanwhile, Oleksandra Ustinova, a member of Ukraine's parliament, told members of the House that causalities in Ukraine would climb without a "no-fly zone" to prevent Moscow from entering Ukraine's air space.

Yannis-trending "business casual"

Sen. Marco Rubio shared an image from the conversation on Twitter Saturday morning, showing Zelensky sitting near a Ukrainian flag and wearing his now-signature Army green t-shirt.

Rubio, Grassley Introduce Bill to Sanction All Russian State-Owned Enterprises

U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the Halting Enrichment of Russian Oligarchs and Industry Allies of Moscow's Schemes to Leverage its Abject Villainy Abroad (HEROIAM SLAVA) Act, which would impose sweeping sanctions on all Russian state-owned enterprises. The HEROIAM SLAVA Act, named after the iconic Ukrainian rallying cry and symbol of national resistance, would deny companies controlled or owned by Moscow, such as Rosneft, Gazprom, Rosatom, Aeroflot, and RT, access to critical American capital as they fund Vladimir Putin's war efforts.
"Putin is actively fueling the Russian war machine through funds generated by Moscow's state-owned corporations," Rubio said. "No Russian state-owned enterprise should have access to American capital while a bloodthirsty dictator is waging an invasion against Ukraine."

"Ukrainian rallying cry and symbol", iconography
Ukranian World Congress ГЕРОЯМ СЛАВА / roman sp. HEROYAM/HEROIAM SLAVA; *-Eng. trans. Glory to Heroes
Irish Times | Ukraine right revives wartime symbols amid 'revolution', 2014
"Historians say the guerrillas sometimes fought alongside Adolf Hitler's forces in the hope of securing support for a sovereign Ukraine"
DW | New 'Glory to Ukraine' army chant invokes nationalist past, 2018
"The phrase dates back to World War I, when military units from the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic were fighting alongside German and Austro-Hungarian soldiers against Russia."
euromaidan press | A short history of the Ukrainian greeting "Slava Ukrayini!"
"UPA poster from the 1940s. OUN/UPA's formal greeting is written on two of the horizontal lines 'Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes!' The soldier is standing on the banners of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. "
wikiwtf | Slava Ukraini! Heroiam slava!
"During World War II, Ukrainian nationalists often used it in addition to a roman salute[?!]. 'Glory to the heroes!' was also used by the Kuban Cossacks during the same period."
Latin, ave atque vale
translations don't write themselves, yo

UWC political action committees (PAC), US representatives
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America
since 1940

US Congressional Ukraine Caucus
US House members; wikiwtf
US Senate members; Bipartisan Senate Ukraine Caucus, 15 Apr 2021

by Cat on Sat Mar 5th, 2022 at 05:47:41 PM EST
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4 hours later in the WWII holocaust resistance lobby
same NYPost URL- NEW! title, content EMBELLISHMENTS
Zelensky pleads for US military aid, says if Biden acted sooner `there would not have been war'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky chided the Biden administration for not slapping sanctions on Russia's Vladimir Putin sooner in an emotional, approximately hour-long Zoom call with 280 US senators and House members Saturday morning. "If you had started sanctions months ago, there would not have been war," he said, Fox News [!] reported.
Zelensky thanked the US for the assistance it has already sent, and pleaded for additional American military aid for his besieged country, a Senate source said.
[...]
Dozens of lawmakers unmuted themselves to thank Zelensky for his bravery as the call came to an end - with some pledging "Slava Ukraini" -- Glory to Ukraine, a source told CNN [!].
[...]
"He said we either need a no-fly zone or we need to be given planes, that was the basic message," Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) told The Post. "If NATO is not going to provide a no fly zone, then provide planes. And that is something where NATO can help."
"I will do all I can to help the administration to facilitate their transfer," Majority Leader Chuck Schumer [!] promised in a statement issued after the call was complete.