Zelensky becomes first foreign leader to address cabinet for nearly 30 years

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Volodymyr Zelensky became the first first foreign leader to address the UK Cabinet in almost 30 years as he spoke to Sir Keir Starmer and his senior ministers on Friday, 19 July.

The Ukrainian president appealed for permission to strike Russian targets with Western weapons in his historic remarks.

Mr Zelensky also urged the government to help with Kyiv’s long-range capability.

“I ask you to show your leadership in this and please convince other partners to remove the limits," Mr Zelensky told the meeting on Friday morning.

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Is this what the uk people voted for? All the problems we have and now we are going to spend more money on aid for ukraine and increase military spending?

sas
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He should be on the FRONT LINE not scrounging for more money. So Starmer is going to give Ukrain 3.5 billion pounds for them to buy more military equipment with OUR money. Absolute madness !

mauricechilds
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Let's discuss Zelensky's human rights abuses and crimes against fellow Ukraine's. No one in the West wants to talk about this because the EU, UK and US are only concerned with bringing down Russia.

gmseed
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So we are just going to ignore the fact that Zelenskys term limit has expired and hes still president. So we do like Dictators? Good to know 👍

deestroyer
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How about get back to the Ukraine and save your own country rather than begging other countries for financial and military aid!! The British people are sick of helping other countries when our own country is being run into the ground!!

daniellealder
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He's despised in his own country, that's what we aren't being told. You can't imagine how life is like for Ukrainians. There aren't jobs, everything costs 3-4 times more than it did before the war, they have electricity for 3 hours a day and the 20% of men still left, live in fear that if they leave home they will be grabbed and sent to the front line to be meat for the grinder. I know of people who haven't left home in 3-4 months because going to the front line means certain death. I know of others who joined the army and died 3 weeks later.

My wife's family are Ukrainian, her grandmother has cancer, but there aren't any doctors to treat her, and her father, who is 55 can't leave home to drive his own 75 year old mother to the hospital because he could be stopped and bundled into the back of a bus and sent to the front line. 2 weeks ago, a friend died when a missile hit a shop she was in and she was burnt alive

This is the reality of the war in Ukraine, and no amount of money is going to change it. The people hate Zelinsky, he lied about not joining the war, he lied about how the war is going, he has everyone locked down in marshal law and the only reason they haven't voted him out because he illegally stopped any elections. There is no law in Ukraine, police and judges do what they want, when they want... that's what Ukrainians I've met think of Zelinksy and I work with dozens from all over Ukraine and my wife's family are from the east.

Even by giving him money we aren't helping... we are just prolonging the suffering. Either we join him, or pressure him to accept peace... not just bleed out the Ukrainian people to the point they won't be able to recover

gurucartel
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What does he need and how much 🙄 ? Only leader of a country during war, that is always on holiday.

carolewynn
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Zelensky is a scammmer, we should have nothing to do with that war

Mrboy
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"I know i speak for every one in this room, you have our unshakable support". but the UK people hate you for refusing Russia's offers for peace and taking our money.

lightend
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Mr prime minister please focus on the UK instead of running around the globe trying to solve other nations' problems.

mathewgrover
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Puppet Show for arms manufacturers and land grabbers

blueskye
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What historic moment? Zalensky is milking British tax payers money!

tonycap
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This little man is not achieving anything apart from traveling the world in his green top !!

Micktyb
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Zelenskyy hasn’t paid into the pot has he?
Our money going to scroungers on shore and offshore.

lyricgoosejj
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Love to Putin and Russia from Scotland.

UK-Blue
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Peace talks and uniting people around the world. 😂🤮 NOT

debbie
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we already have are own bloody problems why make more booo to the priminister you have made are country worse were ae you gonna get all this aid money?? beg for some from other european countries of america

playblade
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As a British citizen whatever that menas today i will not be going to war for these two muppets.

DH-zpbc
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Ukraine has 1.377 trilllion GBP's worth of gold reserves... USE YOUR countries gold reserves not MY MONEY.

lightend
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Starmer clearly stating he is just another American Agent.

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