for president zelenskyy, for his entire team, for the ukrainian people that they represent. the courage they ve shown, the strength, determination, dignity faced with this russian onslaught is extraordinary. and it s powerfully moving. i think people around the world. if i were in president zelenskyy s position, i d be asking for everything possible to help the ukrainian people. and as the foreign secretary and i have laid out, both countries and so many others have done extraordinary things to make sure the ukrainians have in their hands the means to effectively defend themselves against this choice from russia as well as do everything we can with great significant resources to care for ukrainian people to the best of our ability inside ukraine and those forced to plea outside ukraine, to meet their hume an aitarian needs. and the goal is the same.
together in the tradition of the churchill bust, recognizing the wartime leader. i want to work to have a bust of president zelenskyy, a war time leader who is representing democracy and his country around the world. gas prices have never been higher. there is concern that they are going to continue to go up. congressman boyle, what would you say to americans who are watching or listening on siriusx siriusxm radio? i pumped gas not long ago and that hurts. there are a few things that we can do to make sure that we stand up to the brutal russian
ukrainian civilians have been killed so far. the number could be much higher. just outside the capital, russia attacked a residential neighborhood. rescuers scrambled to search for survivors. russia attacked kyiv s television tower. it is right next to the city s historic holocaust memorial. russia claims its goal now is to overthrow ukraine s government calling it a new nazi regime. ukrainian s jewish president zelenskyy accused russia of distorting history around calls on jews around the world to come to the nation s defense. zelenskyy tweeting, what is the point of saying never again if the world stays silent when the world drops on the same site. a senior u.s. defense official says while russia has increased missile and military attacks on the capital, a convoy headed towards the city is still
deep. and it s not just in mariupol. our ian pannell inside a hospital in kyiv today where they are now treating casualties around the clock. civilians being rushed in. and there are new concerns tonight over chernobyl. the russians have now cut power to the nuclear site and why authorities are telling abc news tonight that this is a fragile situation at that plant. abc senior fortunate ian panel leading us off tonight from kyiv. reporter: tonight, a horrific attack on a children s and maternity hospital in mariupol, ukraine. verified video showing how powerful and devastating this air strike was. windows and walls blown out. president zelenskyy tweeting videos from the site, saying there were people, children under the wreckage. calling the attack an atrocity. disturbing images show a pregnant woman as she was rescued from the rubble. local officials aren t sure yet how many people may have been killed or wounded. the building had reportedly been largely empty.
a, quote, humanitarian obligation for the whole world. that is what ukrainian president zelenskyy is calling the crisis in his country this morning as he urges the west for more financial and military aid for his people. a bipartisan deal was just struck to spend some $13.6 billion in aid. the house is said to vote on that bill today. i m joined by brendan boil and congress joe wilson. they are the co-chairs of the congressional european union caucus. and, congressman boyle, we ll start with you. the major funding del, part of a 1.5 trillion omnibus bill of which $13.6 billion will go