Zelenski calls for more US aid

Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenski told the US Congress on Wednesday that the "terror" his country is experiencing "is something Europe has not seen in 80 years" and called for new sanctions against all Russian politicians. 

"Remember 9/11. Ukraine is suffering this every day. A terror that Europe has not seen in 80 years," Zelenski said in a virtual address to the US Congress, which greeted him with a standing ovation. 

The Ukrainian president remarked that right now the fate of his country "is being decided" as Russia's "brutal" attack "targets the basic human values" of Ukrainians. 

Zelenski's remarks come after US President Joe Biden signed into law a bill providing $13.6 billion in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine and countries on NATO's eastern flank. 

Zelenski welcomed the international effort, but called on Biden for "new packages" of sanctions against Russia until "the Russian military machine stops". 

"Restrictions are needed against all those on whom this unjust regime is based (...) All those (Russian politicians) who remain in office", he added.

He also insisted on the call for NATO to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine, which both Washington and the Atlantic Alliance have opposed. 

Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February and began shelling major cities, causing more than three million refugees, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).