US provided security for Ukrainian President Zelenskyy at Munich conference: Durbin
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Sen. Dick Durbin said Friday that the U.S. provided security for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy when he attended a security conference in Munich, Germany last week.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the fourth days of hearing on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool) Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking to the media during a joint news conference with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Feb. 1. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool)
"I think you should know if you don't already that the United States was providing protection and security for him for that trip so that he could make an appeal, personal appeal to the people of the world in light of what he was facing," Durbin added.