White House faces growing impatience on Capitol Hill as calls to help Ukraine get louder ahead of Zelensky's speech
CNN
President Joe Biden is confronting a daily deluge of pressure from lawmakers on Capitol Hill to do more -- and act faster -- to help Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin intensifies his bloody attacks across the country.
Those calls are poised to only grow louder on Wednesday after members of Congress hear fresh pleas for assistance directly from one man who is hunkered down in Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Zelensky is set to deliver a rare wartime speech to Congress in the morning, less than two weeks after the Ukrainian leader held a virtual meeting with US lawmakers. He is widely expected to use Wednesday's address -- as he has in speeches to other friendly governments -- to make an impassioned appeal yet again to the US for more help, including for certain kinds of military assistance that the Biden administration has already come out against.
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