Zelensky's Address To Congress And The View From Lviv
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🗓️ 17 March 2022
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Summary
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed U.S. Congress on Wednesday to ask for a number of things including a no-fly-zone over his country. The Biden administration did not agree to that request, but it did announce $800 million in military aid to Ukraine including anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles, drones, and more. Christopher Miller, a correspondent for BuzzFeed News currently in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, joins us to discuss what things look like on the ground.
And in headlines: The Federal Reserve bumped up a key interest rate by 0.25 percent, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake rocked eastern Japan, and nearly 23,000 mail votes were thrown out in the Texas primary election.
Show Notes:
Christopher Miller on Twitter – https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM
“This Ukrainian Mother Buried Both Of Her Sons Just Six Days Apart” by Christoper Miller – https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/ukraine-brothers-killed-same-family
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday March 17th. I'm getting rezzed. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Priyanka Arabandi and this is what a day where we are wearing green or same Patrick's |
| 0:13.4 | day, but also because our intervals between doing laundry have gotten a lot longer during |
| 0:18.0 | the pandemic. Yes, some of my clothes have taken on a green hue and for me that just makes |
| 0:23.2 | me more respectful of the solida. Yeah, it feels great to admit this to all of you who can't |
| 0:27.6 | see us right now. On today's show, the Federal Reserve tackles rising inflation by hiking |
| 0:34.4 | up interest rates plus Texas throughout a record 23,000 mail-in ballots from the primary. |
| 0:40.4 | But first, let's go in depth on the Russia-Ukraine war. Yesterday, Ukrainian President |
| 0:45.8 | Vladimir Zelensky addressed the U.S. Congress asking for a number of things, including a no-fly |
| 0:50.8 | zone over the country. Here is part of what he said through a translator. Right now, |
| 0:55.3 | the destiny of our country is being decided. The destiny of our people, whether Ukrainians will |
| 1:04.5 | be free, whether they will be able to preserve their democracy. The Biden administration didn't |
| 1:11.1 | agree to the no-fly zone request, but it did announce $800 million in military aid to Ukraine, |
| 1:17.0 | including anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles, drones, and more. Additionally, while Biden was |
| 1:22.5 | leaving an unrelated event, a reporter asked if he would consider Putin a war criminal. He first |
| 1:27.6 | said no, but then went back and said this. Oh, I think he is a war criminal. Such a interesting |
| 1:34.5 | inflection on going back and saying it again. Yeah, like actually. Yeah. So, as for some of what |
| 1:41.8 | happened on the ground in Ukraine, as of our recording at 9.30 Eastern Wednesday night, Ukrainian |
| 1:46.8 | officials said yesterday that a Russian air strike hit a theater in Maria-Paul where hundreds of |
| 1:51.7 | residents had been seeking shelter in the past few days. That's actually not what Biden was |
| 1:56.6 | being asked about in that exchange. One detail about that, the New York Times reviewed satellite |
| 2:01.6 | imagery showing the word children had been written in Russian in the front and back of the building |
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