 t-shirt yet again speaking from his invaded country. Let's take a listen. Mr. President, it is my honor to present to you the Congress of the United States, which has great respect and admiration and appreciation for your courageous leadership. Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, Slava Ukrana. Glory to heroes. Thank you very much. Madam Speaker, members of the Congress, ladies and gentlemen, Americans, friends, I am proud to greet you from Ukraine, from our capital city of Kiev, a city that is under missile and airstrikes from Russian troops every day, but it doesn't give up. And we have not even thought about it for a second, just like many other cities and communities in our beautiful country, which found themselves in the worst war since World War II. I have the honor to greet you on behalf of the Ukrainian people, brave and freedom-loving people who for eight years have been resisting the Russian aggression. Those who give their best sons and daughters to stop this full-scale Russian invasion. Right now, the destiny of our country is being decided. The destiny of our people, whether Ukrainians will be free, whether they will be able to preserve their democracy. Russia has attacked not just us, not just our land, not just our cities. It went on a brutal offensive against our values, basic human values. It threw tanks and planes against our freedom, against our right to live freely in our own country, choosing our own future. Against our desire for happiness, against our national dreams, just like the same dreams you have, you Americans, just like anyone else in the United States. I remember your national memorial in Rushmore, the faces of your prominent presidents, those who laid the foundation of the United States, of America, as it is today. Democracy, independence, freedom and care for everyone, for every person, for everyone who works diligently, who lives honestly, who respects the law. We in Ukraine want the same for our people. All that is normal part of your own life. Ladies and gentlemen, friends, Americans, in your great history you have pages that would allow you to understand Ukrainians, understand us now when you need it right now, when we need you right now. Remember Pearl Harbor, terrible morning of December 7, 1941, when your sky was black from the planes attacking you, just remember it. Remember September 11, a terrible day in 2001, when evil tried to turn your cities, independent territories in battlefields, when innocent people were attacked, attacked from air. Yes, just like no one else expected it, you could not stop it. Our country experience the same every day, right now, at this moment, every night, for three weeks now, various Ukrainian cities. Russia has turned the Ukrainian sky into a source of death for thousands of people. Russian troops have already fired nearly 1,000 missiles at Ukraine. Countless bombs, they used drones to kill us with precision. This is a terror that Europe has not seen, has not seen for 80 years, and we are asking for a reply for an answer to this terror from the whole world. Is this a lot to ask for to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine to save people? Is this too much to ask? Humanitarian no-fly zone, something that Ukraine, Russia would not be able to terrorize our free cities. If this is too much to ask, we offer an alternative. You know what kind of defense systems we need as 300 and other similar systems. You know how much depends on the battlefield, on the ability to use aircraft, powerful, strong air aviation to protect our people, our freedom, our land, aircraft that can help Ukraine, help Europe. And you know that they exist and you have them, but they are on earth, not in the Ukrainian sky. They do not defend our people. I have a dream. These words are known to each of you today. I can say I have a need. I need to protect our sky. I need your decision, your help, which means exactly the same, the same you feel when you hear the words, I have a dream. Ladies and gentlemen, friends, Ukraine is grateful to the United States for its overwhelming support, for everything that your government and your people have done for us, for weapons and ammunition, for training, for finances, for leadership in the free world, which helps us to pressure the aggressor economically. I am grateful to President Biden for his personal involvement, for his sincere commitment to the defense of Ukraine and democracy all over the world. I am grateful to you for the resolution which recognizes all those who commit crimes against Ukraine, against the Ukrainian people as war criminals. However, now it is true in the darkest time for our country, for the whole Europe, I call on you to do more new packages of sanctions are needed constantly every week until the Russian military machine stops. Restrictions are needed for everyone on whom this unjust regime is based. We propose that the United States sanctions all politicians in the Russian Federation who remain in their offices and do not cut ties with those who are responsible for the aggression against Ukraine, from state Duma's members to the last official who has lack of morale to break the state terror. All Americans' company must leave Russia from their market, leave their market immediately because it is flooded with our blood. Ladies and gentlemen, members of Congress, please take the lead. If you have companies in your districts who finance the Russian military machine leaving business in Russia, you should put pressure. I am asking to make sure that the Russians do not receive a single penny that they used to destroy people in Ukraine. The destruction of our country, the destruction of Europe. All American ports should be close for Russian goods. Peace is more important than income and we have to defend this principle in the whole world. We already became part of the anti-war coalition, a big anti-war coalition that unites many countries, dozens of countries, those who reacted in principle to President Putin's decision to invade our country, but we need to move on and do more. We need to create new tools to respond quickly and stop the war, the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24th. And it would be fair if it ended in a day in 24 hours that evil would be punished immediately. Today, the world does not have such tools. The war of the past has prompted our predecessors to create institutions that should protect us from war, but they unfortunately don't work. We see it, you see it, so we need new ones, new institutions, new alliances and we offer them. We propose to create an association, U-24, United for Peace, a union of responsible countries that have the strength and consciousness to stop conflicts immediately, provide all the necessary assistance in 24 hours, if necessary, even weapons, if necessary, sanctions, humanitarian support, political support, finances, everything you need to keep the peace and quickly save the world, to save lives. In addition, such associations, such unions could provide assistance to those who are experiencing natural disasters, man-made disasters, who fell victims to humanitarian crises or epidemics. Remember how difficult it was for the world to do the simplest thing, just to give vaccines, vaccines against COVID to save lives, to prevent new strains. The world spent months, years doing things like that much faster to make sure there are no human losses, no victims. Ladies and gentlemen, Americans, if such alliance would exist today, that is U-24, we would be able to save thousands of lives in our country. In many countries of the world, those who need peace, those who suffer inhumane destruction, I ask you to watch one video, video of what the Russian troops did in our country, in our land. We have to stop it. We must prevent it, preventively destroy every single aggressor, who seeks to subjugate other nations. Please watch the video. Peace in your country doesn't depend anymore only on you and your people. It depends on those next to you, on those who are strong. Strong doesn't mean big. Strong is brave and ready to fight for the life of his citizens and citizens of the world, for human rights, for freedom, for the right to live decently and to die when your time comes. And not when it's wanted by someone else, by your neighbor. Today, the Ukrainian people are defending not only Ukraine, we are fighting for the values of your and the world, sacrificing our lives in the name of the future. That's why today, the American people are helping not just Ukraine, but Europe and the world to keep the planet alive, to keep justice in history. Now, I'm almost 45 years old. Today, my age stopped when the hearts of more than 100 children stopped beating. I see no sense in life if it cannot stop the deaths. And this is my main issue at the leader of my people, great Ukrainians. And at the leader of my nation, I'm addressing the President Biden. You are the leader of the nation of the oppression. I wish you to be the leader of the world. Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace. Thank you. Glory to Ukraine. Standing ovation there for President Vladimir Zelensky, who's thanking members of the American Congress for this warm welcome he's receiving there. President Zelensky calling on President Biden to be the leader of peace, the leader of the world of common values that Ukraine shares with other democracies. He says, I see no sense of life if we cannot stop the killing as more than 100 children die in Ukraine. He goes on to say a lot of interesting things in this message. I'm not talking just about the rhetoric Ambassador Shek and Owen Ultriman, but also about very substantial things. And more than anything, a message that he continues to emphasize and emphasized once again here is the no-fly zone. Close the skies over Ukraine. Now, Owen, maybe you can explain why is it such a difficult thing to do for a sovereign country to take a decision or why it cannot take a decision on its own to close the sky? Yeah, there is that. But I think, Arielle, that the message in a sense was deeper. This is a speech that hit its stride at the end. The hit its stride when Volodymyr Zelensky started to speak in English directly to those members of Congress and hit the heart of his argument. Before that, it felt like a disjointed speech, a speech that on one hand tried to appeal to American history, but in a very clumsy way. There is no comparison, frankly, between Pearl Harbor and 9-11 and what Zelensky and the Ukrainian people are dealing with. There's simply no comparison in terms of scale or anything else. It is true that he appeals to the British Parliament and invokes Churchill. There, there's a real parallel and a real comparison, but not here. He's talking about attacks on American soil. But it is nothing to do with the scale or nature of what Ukraine is facing. There's no similarity. It should have been edited out of the speech because it's just too tenuous. This is also a speech that, frankly, up until the end, veered between are the Ukrainian people strong and heroic or are they victims and weak? Are they the strong and heroic people that Zelensky described in the text of his speech or the victimized and weak people that he showed in that video portion of the speech? The speech that, frankly, didn't make sense until the end. And at the end, he hit the right note. He appealed to America's sense of mission, to America's sense of exceptionalism, to America's sense, which has been rejuvenated because of this war of itself as a leader of the free world that needs to take action. And, of course, there was that threat. There was that message. If it's not us, soon it's going to be Europe, and then it's going to be you. This isn't only about the ideal of American leadership. This is about your own self-defense, and there it had the quality, Arielle, not of Churchill, but of something else. I'm interested to hear what Ambassador Schekas is about this. Haile Selassie at the League of Nations, June 1936. The king, the ruler of Ethiopia, when his country had been taken over by the fascists of Italy in a kind of precursor to World War II, certainly seen in retrospect, appealing to the then League of Nations, saying, essentially, this message, if you don't wake up and take action now about what's happening in my country, soon it is going to be your country's. And sadly, it's a prophecy that, in that case, was proven true. We can only hope that this is not a prophecy that's proven true, that it's not a prophecy at all, that Ukraine will somehow be able to overcome what it's facing from its perspective. As for the no-fly zone, look, as has been said by Michael McFall, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia on American TV, the no-fly zone is essentially a declaration of war against Russia. It pits, potentially, American pilots against Russian pilots in a frontal clash. It's a kind of risk that the United States and NATO aren't willing to take upon themselves. Zelensky makes the case of why they need to take more risks, especially, again, hitting his notes at the end. But I think that the broader wish of taking stronger action can potentially be fulfilled without going specifically at the no-fly zone idea. Ambassador, check your impressions of the speech and also what we didn't hear, what was missing. Well, I'm just a little bit less critical than Owen Alderman about the speech. I think it's a little bit basic. That's true in the way he tries to resonate with an American audience. He starts with Rushmore and he talks about, I have a dream and all sorts. It's a little bit naive. I agree. It's not very sophisticated. But I'm not sure that sophisticated is what's needed right now. And in particular to this audience, I think the American Congress, he's preaching to the choir. He doesn't need to convince them to support him. He just is trying to get them to do more. Where I do agree with Owen is that the final note of appealing to American leadership, the role of America in the world, that is something that every American, Democrat, Republican, everybody understands that. Yeah, no, go ahead. I was going to say, I mean, you're right. I was very critical of the first, say, two-thirds of the speech. And I have no idea what Martin Luther King was doing in the speech. Martin Luther King is an incredible human being, an American who changed the trajectory of American history. But it's absolutely nothing to do with what's going on in Ukraine. There's simply no connection between the two. I do think, though, this speech will be remembered much, much more in the annals of history. And I really do think the annals of history for that last piece. And I think those first two-thirds will frankly be forgotten. But I think the last piece will really resonate for a long time. The, his main pitch about the no-fly zone, it's, I'm not saying it's unreasonable. It's just unrealistic for all the reasons that Owen mentioned. Because it's at the first skirmish between NATO planes or American planes who are trying to enforce that and a Russian plane, the United States are at war with Russia. And that is something that President Biden, and to be honest, all other leaders in the Western world have decided to avoid. They have decided to create a new type of asymmetrical warfare where one side uses the army, troops, bombs, missiles. And the other side, I'm not talking about the Ukrainians. I'm talking about Washington and the Western world. They are using other tools. They are using the economy. They are using diplomatic pressure. They're using economic pressure. They are using sanctions. And they are arming the Ukrainians. And may I add, from the point of view of an Israeli, this is how the United States has always supported Israel by helping Israel defend itself. That was Israel's ask. Israel never asked what Volodymyr Zelensky is asking for foreign intervention, never ever in its history. But that is the way the United States has shown leadership in this region by helping Israel defend itself. We're, let's look, let's listen in soon. We'll listen into a few more parts from that.