{"id":476252,"date":"2022-03-17T09:15:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T03:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=476252"},"modified":"2022-03-17T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T05:22:06","slug":"zelensky-appeals-to-us-congress-for-a-no-fly-zone-more-sanctions-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/zelensky-appeals-to-us-congress-for-a-no-fly-zone-more-sanctions-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky appeals to US Congress for a no-fly zone, more sanctions on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky cited Pearl Harbour and the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 on Wednesday as he appealed to the US Congress to do more to help Ukraine&#8217;s fight against Russia, but acknowledged the no-fly zone he has sought to \u201cclose the sky\u201d over his country may not happen.<\/p>\n<p>Livestreamed into the Capitol complex, Zelensky said the US must sanction Russian lawmakers and block imports, and he showed a packed auditorium of lawmakers an emotional video of the destruction and devastation his country has suffered in the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need you right now,\u201d Zelensky said, adding, &#8220;I call on you to do more.\u201d In urging a steeper economic hit to the Russians, he said: \u201cPeace is more important than income.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky cited Pearl Harbour and the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 on Wednesday as he appealed to the US Congress to do more to help Ukraine&#8217;s fight against Russia, but acknowledged the no-fly zone he has sought to \u201cclose the sky\u201d over his country may not happen. Livestreamed into the Capitol complex, Zelensky said the US must sanction Russian lawmakers and block imports, and he showed a packed auditorium of lawmakers an emotional video of the destruction and devastation his country has suffered in the war. \u201cWe need you right now,\u201d Zelensky said, adding, &#8220;I call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}