LVIV, Ukraine — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reaffirmed U.S. military, economic and humanitarian support for Ukraine on Sunday, a day after she and a delegation of Democratic lawmakers met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the capital as intense fighting raged in the country’s eastern region.
Speaking from neighboring Poland, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Ukraine needed the West’s assistance to deal with the “devastating human toll taken on the Ukrainian people by (President Vladimir) Putin’s diabolic invasion.”
In the port city of Mariupol, about 100 civilians were being evacuated Sunday from a sprawling steelworks plant that is a final redoubt of Ukrainian defenders and hundreds of noncombatants. Zelenskyy’s office confirmed the evacuation, but gave few details.
