{"id":21013,"date":"2022-05-01T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=21013"},"modified":"2022-05-01T08:00:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T08:00:37","slug":"pelosi-meets-with-ukraine-president-in-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/05\/01\/pelosi-meets-with-ukraine-president-in-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi meets with Ukraine President in Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has met with Ukraine\u2019s president during a visit to the country\u2019s embattled capital, Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi, second in line to the presidency after the vice president, is the highest<span class=\"typographizer-debug typographizer-debug--ignored\">&#8211;<\/span>ranking American leader to visit Ukraine since the start of the war, and her visit marks a major show of continuing support for the country\u2019s struggle against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Footage released early Sunday by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s office showed Pelosi in Kyiv with a Congressional delegation including Jason Crow, Jim McGovern and Adam Schiff.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy greeted the delegation outdoors before they adjourned to a meeting room where he said, \u201cI am grateful to you for this signal of strong support from the United States, the people, and Congress \u2014 bicameral and bipartisan support.<span class=\"typographizer-debug typographizer-debug--closing-double\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis shows that the United States today is a leader in strong support for Ukraine during the war against the aggression of the Russian Federation,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<p>Pelosi told Zelenskyy: \u201cWe believe that we are visiting you to say thank you for your fight for freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are on a frontier of freedom and your fight is a fight for everyone. Our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done,\u201d Pelosi added.<\/p>\n<p>The visit was not previously announced.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our Congressional Delegation traveled to Kyiv and met with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ZelenskyyUa<\/a> to send an unmistakable and resounding message to the entire world: America stands firmly with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpeakerPelosi\/status\/1520661598007873537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has met with Ukraine\u2019s president during a visit to the country\u2019s embattled capital, Kyiv. Pelosi, second in line to the presidency after the vice president, is the highest&#8211;ranking American leader to visit Ukraine since the start of the war, and her visit marks a major show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[7099,11583,6693,4028,3613,5342,9833,2470,7811,7574,3805,3457,5217,9277,8840,5350,5180,6885,5177,9262,2802,11255,5251,7932],"class_list":["post-21013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-bipartisan","tag-capital","tag-congress","tag-freedom","tag-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-d-ca","tag-kyiv","tag-meeting","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-pelosi","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-speaker","tag-strong","tag-twitter","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraines-president","tag-ukraines-president-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-united-states","tag-vice-president","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-zelenskyy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}