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Olena Selenska in the Capitol: "I'm asking for something I never wanted to ask"

2022-07-21T11:47:16.975Z


Russian rockets kill civilians every day in Ukraine – including children and young people. Olena Zelenska, the wife of the Ukrainian President, addresses urgent words to the USA.


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The images from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv are hard to bear.

We have therefore blurred the details.

A father prays for his son lying in front of him.

He was the victim of a rocket attack on Wednesday.

Viktor Sabashta, Head of Ambulance Service


“Three people were killed, including a 13-year-old boy.

Two were wounded, including a 15-year-old girl.

She's undergoing surgery."

Once again, these are places where civilians are who, according to the Ukrainian police, came under fire from the Russian army.

A rocket hit a bus stop where people were waiting for the bus.

The mosque next door was damaged.

For the people here it is clear: These are war crimes.

Olena Baranik, spokeswoman for the Kharkiv police


»All these criminal acts are documented by the police around the clock every day, and all evidence is being prepared for an international tribunal.«

The wife of Ukraine's President, Olena Zelenska, spoke at the US Capitol on Wednesday.

She thanked the United States for its support in the fight against Russia - and urged further arms deliveries.

Olena Zelenska, wife of the Ukrainian President


»Terror continues.

And I appeal to all of you, on behalf of those who have been killed, on behalf of those who have lost their arms and legs, on behalf of those who are still alive and well, and on behalf of those who are waiting for their families to be rescued from the front lines Come back.

I'm asking for something now that I never wanted to ask.

I ask for guns.

Weapons not used to fight a war on someone else's land.

But to protect your own home and the right to wake up alive in that home.

I ask for air defense systems so that missiles can no longer kill children in their strollers, so that missiles do not destroy children's rooms and wipe out entire families."

Meanwhile, heavy shelling by Russia continues, especially in eastern Ukraine.

These images are said to show a school campus in Kramatorsk near Donetsk, which was the target of a rocket attack on Thursday.

And in the neighboring town of Bakhmut, rockets fell on a market square.

There is no information about fatalities yet.

Source: spiegel

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