Zelensky pleads for US military aid, says if Biden acted sooner ‘there would not have been war’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky chided the Biden administration for not slapping sanctions on Russia’s Vladimir Putin sooner in an emotional, approximately hour-long Zoom call with 280 US senators and House members Saturday morning. “If you had started sanctions months ago, there would not have been war,” he said, Fox News reported. Zelensky thanked the US for the assistance it has already sent, and pleaded for additional American military aid for his besieged country, a Senate source said. Dozens of lawmakers unmuted themselves to...