Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed a joint session of Congress yesterday, appealing to lawmakers for increased aid in its fight against Russia. Zelenskyy, who remains on the ground in the capital of Kyiv, reiterated his call for a Western-backed no-fly zone—which would likely involve direct engagement between NATO and Russian air forces—across the country.
President Joe Biden announced an additional $800M in military support following the speech, which comes in addition to a $13.6B aid package approved last week. Watch Zelenskyy's address in full here.
Russian bombardment of a number of cities continues. In the port city of Mariupol, hundreds are feared trapped after a missile struck a theater where residents had taken shelter from the bombings.
Separately, a glimmer of hope for an end to fighting emerged yesterday, with reports of a draft cease-fire proposal circulating. Conditions include Ukraine dropping efforts to join NATO and adopting an official stance of neutrality.
See map updates of the war and photos from the fighting here.
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NASA is scheduled to roll out its next-generation Space Launch System today, preparing for a key test of the launch vehicle expected to return Americans to the moon. Taller than the Statue of Liberty, the 6 million pound rocket will be transported roughly 4 miles to its launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The SLS will provide liftoff for the Orion spacecraft, the vehicle at the center of the upcoming Artemis lunar missions (read more). The first launch, expected this summer, will send an uncrewed vehicle around the moon. Artemis II, tentatively scheduled for 2024, will send a crewed vehicle around the moon. The third launch, planned for 2025, will return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.
Watch engineers stack the different components here.
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At least 107 people were injured and four people killed after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan yesterday, causing a tsunami alert and briefly shutting off power for more than 2 million homes. Japan’s Meteorological Agency reported the epicenter hit 170 miles northeast of Tokyo and at a depth of 36 miles beneath the seafloor.
The quake struck 11 years to the month of the 2011 Fukushima disaster—a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, which triggered a series of tsunamis that killed more than 22,000 people, caused nuclear plant meltdowns, and destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes. The 2011 quake was 63 times stronger than yesterday’s quake. (Why does Japan experience so many strong earthquakes?)
See footage of the earthquake here.
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