Before joining a summit of EU leaders to request more weapons, Zelenskyy thanks the European Parliament for assisting Ukraine in defending itself against the Russian invasion.
“Thank you,” Zelenskyy said to EU lawmakers, who gave him a standing ovation while wearing Ukrainian flag blue and yellow.
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“We Ukrainians, together with you, are defending ourselves on the battlefield,” he said, adding that his country was “defending ourselves against (the) biggest anti-European force of the modern world.”
While Zelenskyy is unlikely to leave with immediate pledges to satisfy his requests for fighter jets, the visit gives him a chance to argue his case in person with all the EU’s 27 national leaders for the first time since Russia invaded last year.
