Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that “millions will be killed” in his country’s war with Russia without additional funding from the United States.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Zelensky in an interview to respond to comments made by Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who claimed Ukraine’s outcome in its war will not be changed even if it receives the President Biden’s $60 billion aid request. Zelensky said he wasn’t sure if Vance “understands what is going on here.”

“To understand it is to come to the front line to see what’s going on, to speak with the people, then to go to civilians to understand … what will [happen to] them without this support. And he will understand that millions … will be killed. It’s a fact,” Zelensky said.

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    Isn’t it amazing how what Russia is doing in Ukraine isn’t genocide simply because of how Biden handles it?

    Who knew that the definition of “genocide” was entirely reliant on what one US president did.

    Seems no rats’s asses are given about what’s going on over there, nor any props given that Biden is helping them to defend themselves-

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      I seem to recall the internet absolutely called Ukraine a genocide when Russia started abducting and deporting Ukrainian children.

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        And they’re still doing that. Guess it’s just not cool anymore to mention it now that Biden is an easier target for right wing pripaganda.

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      Biden could come up with world peace, feed everyone for free and have health insurance for everyone along with the best economy we’ve ever seeen and the Republicans would still be talking shit about a made up laptop.

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        And socialists would still be accusing him of genocide.