President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked the ambassadors of the United24 platform to think about joint public steps to draw the attention of the US Congress and Americans to Ukraine, a UNN correspondent reports.
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Zelenskyy spoke with ambassadors of the United24 fundraising platform - Francis Fukuyama, Scott Kelly, Richard Branson, Misha Collins, Mark Hamill, Lev Schreiber, Katherine Winnick and Ivanna Sakhno, Timothy Snyder, Brad Paisley, as well as Wayne Sermon, Ben McKee and Mac Reynolds of Imagine Dragons.
They discussed the support for Ukraine in the world and what can be done to keep the focus on helping our people, helping them defend themselves against Russian terror.
I want to ask you to continue your work focused on Ukraine. We need your support. And the third thing is about the Congress. Without this support from Congress, it will be difficult for us to win, let alone stay. That is why it is important to do very concrete things together. And, of course, I want to give you a message and ask you to think about what we can do together publicly - maybe some strong messages, some strong steps to draw the attention of the Congress and the Americans to Ukraine
Prominent historian Timothy Snyder suggested drafting an appeal to Congress and inviting other influential people to sign it.
I can indeed develop such an appeal to the Congress as a whole, and if you really like it, you can invite other influential people to sign such an appeal
Zelensky noted that these are very important things and they are accurate.
I would like to organize it somehow. We need to tell the Congress exactly what: If Congress does not help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war. And to find a public format for this
The President emphasized that if Ukraine loses the war, other states will be attacked, and this is a fact.
You will see in the coming weeks, Russia will be more and more insistent, and will drag nuclear weapons into this issue by threatening, by playing with this issue. Because it is only through the issue of nuclear weapons that they can put pressure on other NATO countries, including the United States, on societies, so that societies are afraid, and then they will react to their leaders
In addition, Zelenskyy invited United24 ambassadors to the summit on the anniversary of the platform's founding.