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$2 billion
“The Biden administration announced a nearly $2 billion arms package for Ukraine that for the first time includes a Patriot air-defense system to help Kyiv protect itself against the barrage of ballistic missiles and cruise missiles Russia has unleashed on the country’s electrical grid and other infrastructure,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Also for the first time, the U.S. is providing kits that will enable Ukraine to use its bombs to carry out precision strikes against Russian forces.”
“Zelensky is basically an ungrateful international welfare queen.”
— Donald Trump Jr., on Twitter.
“He wants to scare the whole world. These are the first steps of his nuclear blackmail. I don’t think he’s bluffing.”
— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, quoted by CNBC, on Russian president Vladimir Putin’s threat of using nuclear weapons.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an overnight address that more than 300 people had been tortured and killed in the Bucha massacre, Axios reports.
“The invaders do not even mourn their own casualties. This is something I do not understand. Some 15,000 have been killed in one month… Vladimir Putin is throwing Russian soldiers like logs into a train’s furnace. And, they are not even burying them…Their corpses are left in the streets. In several cities, small cities, our soldiers say it’s impossible to breathe because of the…stench of rotting flesh.”
— Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with The Economist.
“You are the leader of the nation, I wish you to be the leader of the world. Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.”
— Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, in a virtual address the the U.S. Congress.
“Every square today, no matter what it’s called, is going to be called Freedom Square, in every city of our country. No one is going to break us.”
— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, quoted by Axios, speaking to the European Parliament as his translator began to choke up.
“This morning, we are defending our country alone. Just like yesterday, the most powerful country in the world looked on from a distance.”
— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a new video message.
“I don’t trust anyone at all.”
— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with Time.
“Actually, last time I traveled to the United States, I stayed in New York near Central Park, and I stayed at the Trump Tower.”
— “Buried in the controversy over President Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was an effort by the Ukrainian leader at currying favor with Trump through his business,” the Washington Post reports.“Zelensky’s comments mark the first known example of an interaction Democrats and government ethics experts warned about when Trump took office: that foreign leaders would try to influence Trump by spending money at his properties and telling him about it.”
