Zelenskyy center stage: Facing Congress, pleading for help

By LISA MASCARO
AP Congressional Correspondent

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address the U.S. Congress on Wednesday — the next stop as the actor-turned-turned-wartime leader uses the Western world’s great legislative bodies as a global stage to help his country. In ringing speeches, he is rallying support against Russia’s crushing invasion. The speech Wednesday, livestreamed into the U.S. Capitol, will be among his most important as he pushes the U.S. to do more than it has so far pledged to do. He is likely, for example, to press President Joe Biden anew to help send warplanes to Ukraine. Biden is expected deliver an address later Wednesday announcing an additional $800 million in security assistance for Ukraine.