Zelensky begs Congress for a 'no fly zone,' asks Biden to be the 'leader of the world'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the US Congress on Wednesday morning to encourage that body to authorize greater sanctions and defenses of Ukraine.

As Zelensky's image came up on screen in Congress, the joint session of Congress stood and cheered as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi congratulated him for his "courageous leadership."

Zelensky said he was proud to greet Congress from Ukraine's capital city of Kyiv, saying that the city "doesn't give up." He said the population has been "resisting the Russian aggression for eight years."

"Right now, the destiny of our country is being decided," he said.

"Russia has attacked not just us... it went on a brutal offensive against our values, basic human values, it threw tanks and planed against our freedom against our right to live freely in our own country," he said through a translator, the American ambassador to Ukraine.