President Joe Biden announced an additional aid package for Ukraine totaling $800 million on Wednesday, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an impassioned plea to Congress for more help fending off Russia’s invasion.
Zelenskyy specifically asked the United States to “close the sky” over Ukraine to protect civilians who are being slaughtered by Russian airstrikes. The Biden administration opposes the move, which the president has said would touch off “World War III.”
Biden said the new aid package would include 800 anti-aircraft systems, 9,000 shoulder-mounted…
