Zelensky says World War III may have started in NBC Lester Holt interview after US Congress address
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that Russia may have already started World War III, pushing back against President Joe Bid…
Zelensky says World War III may have started in NBC Lester Holt interview after US Congress address
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that Russia may have already started World War III, pushing back against President Joe Biden's argument the U.S. can't give more assistance because it may escalate the situation. 'Nobody knows whether it may have already started. And what is the possibility of this war if Ukraine will fall, in case Ukraine will? It's very hard to say,' Zelensky told NBC News' Lester Holt. 'And we've seen this 80 years ago, when the second world war had started ... nobody would be able to predict when the full scale war would start.' Zelensky spoke to NBC News after he spoke to lawmakers in Congress, where he made an impassioned plea for more aid for his country. Holt's interview with him will air tonight on NBC Nightly News at 6:30 p.m. ET. He said he would be 'happy' to invited President Joe Biden to the Ukraine - after having confronted him in his remarks to members of Congress - and ntoed that he has 'extended him invitations on occasions.' He also ruled out stepping down as president if Russia would ask that as part of a cease fire agreeemtn. He pointed to his five year 'term of service' in the constitution of Ukraine, explaining, 'there will be an elections and free democratic people of Ukraine and absolutely open, they will select or elect a president for themselves. There is no other provisions that would be providing the stepping down of the President of Ukraine.' In his speech to lawmakers on Wednesday morning, Zelensky said his country is going through its own version of September 11th and Pearl Harbor every day since Russia invaded and he urged the US to protect his skies while invoking Martin Luther King and the Founding Fathers in his heart-wrenching speech. He also confronted President Biden and told him to become the 'leader of the free world', demanded more sanctions for Russia to stop the 'war machine', asked for fighter jets and shared devastating footage of civilians being maimed in Kyiv as he called on lawmakers to 'do more' to protect his country. 'I am addressing the President Biden. You are the leader of the nation, of your great nation. I wish you be the leader of the world. Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace,' he told members in the sobering address to Congress. He received multiple standing ovations from lawmakers during his appearance. Biden, for his part, gave his own speech after Zelensky's where he announced a $800 million military assistance package. He also, for the first time on Wednesday, called Russian President Vladimir Putin a 'war criminal.' 'I think he is a war criminal,' Biden said to reporters at the White House. In his remarks to Congress, Zelensky also called for a new alliance outside of NATO to prevent future attacks and protect from Vladimir Putin's bullying and invoked the civil rights leader MLK by saying 'I have a dream…I have a need. I need to protect our sky. I need your decision… exactly the same you feel when you say 'I have a dream.' He included in his remarks a graphic video, showing the death and destruction that Ukraine has endured. The images included the deaths of young children and mass graves for civilian and military casualties. Several lawmakers were in tears as it played. Zelensky repeated the plea he has made to countries around the world - including in addresses to the Canadian and British parliaments - to enforce a no-fly zone over his country. The U.S. and its allies fret such a move would escalate into World War III. He switched to English to make his dramatic, final, closing appeal where he said the deaths of his country's children and the destruction Russia brought was making him lose the will to live. 'Being the leader of the means to be the leader of peace,' he said in halting, accented English. 'I am almost 45 years old. Today when the hearts of more than 100 children stopped beating, I see no sense in life,' he added. 'I am addressing the President Biden. You are the leader of the nation, of your great nation. I wish you be the leader of the world. Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace,' he said in his closing. American...
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Zelensky says World War III may have started in NBC Lester Holt interview after US Congress...
