Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a video conference speech to US senators and members of the US House of RepresentativesMOSCOW, 17 Mar. The American magazine The American Conservative condemned Vladimir Zelensky's attempts to quote Martin Luther King Jr. in his address to the US Congress. , says the article.In the United States, they attacked Zelensky because of words about the third world warAccording to the author of the publication, the scenarios for US assistance to Ukraine that Zelensky described to congressmen are impractical, and it is dangerous for the White House to agree to them. The journalist also reproached Kyiv for exaggerating facts and outright lies with «I hope Biden wants peace, so the president and Congress shouldn't give Zelensky what he asks,» he concluded. Zelensky spoke to U.S. congressmen on Wednesday. During the speech, he asked the US government to introduce a no-fly zone over the territory of Ukraine, to supply Ukrainian soldiers with military aircraft and weapons. On February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense, the armed forces are only targeting military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops.
