Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has returned to Washington for a visit aimed at shoring up U.S. support for Ukraine.
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00:00 What did you tell lawmakers who don't want to fund your fight?
00:03 We spoke about a lot of different issues. We are happy that Senators from the US, White House, and really the United States, of course, just want to support our government.
00:17 They supported us, we supported from the first days of the war. And now, together with us, we support the war.
00:25 I received support about the situation on the battlefield, about our plans, our consular media, all the details.
00:34 But I think we have a very strong, very strong dialogue with Senators.
00:39 What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
00:41 Thank you, everybody.
00:42 What's your message to Vladimir Putin?
00:44 I'm most grateful to him.
00:46 I asked, "What do you need? What's your plan for victory? What do you need?"
00:50 Two things in particular. Air cover, F-16s, and the attackers.
00:55 He needs a longer-range artillery to hit Crimea, where the Iranian drones are coming out of.
01:00 He doesn't have that. Right now, his troops are going in with no air cover.
01:04 They have to take the mines by hand at nighttime.
01:06 We wouldn't send our troops into that situation.
01:09 So we need to give them everything they need.
01:11 If this administration won't give it to them, then I submitted that we write it in our appropriations bill.
01:17 We write the weapons that he asked for, that this administration won't give.
01:22 We write that in our appropriations bill.
01:24 They need it, and they're going to get it.
01:27 I said, "The majority of the majority support this."
01:31 I know there's some dissension on both sides, but I said, "A war of attrition is not going to win this."
01:36 That's what Putin wants, because he wants to break the will of the American people and the Europeans.
01:41 We can't afford a war of attrition.
01:43 We need a plan for victory from this administration.
01:46 We need accountability, and we need the weapons in yesterday.
01:49 Can the Speaker carry all the Republicans, though?
01:51 Yes.
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