Zelenskyy asks Congress for more aid. This time, it’s a tougher sell.
Nine months after he got a standing ovation before a joint session of Congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returned today – under notably different circumstances – to make a pitch for more U.S. aid.
Aware that America’s enthusiasm for supporting the war effort had eroded significantly, President Zelenskyy urged the U.S. to stay the course. According to senators who attended the closed-door briefing, he said Ukraine was making progress and using U.S. aid effectively, but that further support was necessary to protect the global world order.
Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, summed up Mr. Zelenskyy’s argument as: “We have lived up to our end of
