Ukrainian President Says Fight With Russia Is "America's War Too"

BuzzFeed - “The war that these young men are fighting today is not only Ukraine’s war,” Petro Poroshenko told Congress. “It is Europe’s, and it is America’s war too.” Kevin Lamarque / Reuters KIEV, Ukraine — Speaking before a rare joint session of Congress on Thursday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko made an emotional appeal to the U.S. to support Kiev in its struggle against Russia, which he said was "a war of the free world — and for the free world." Poroshenko, in Washington to ask U.S. President Barack Obama to provide Ukraine with weapons and other assistance for its troubled army fighting Moscow-backed separatists in the southeast, said the U.S. had a responsibility to support Ukraine's democratic aspirations against Russian aspiration. "The war that these young men are fighting today is not only Ukraine's war," Poroshenko said. "It is Europe's, and it is America's war too." At about the same time, the White House a