From the BBC:
“Zelensky to present 'victory
plan' to Biden, Harris and Trump”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky is set to present a "plan for victory" in the country's war
with Russia to President Joe Biden during this week's visit to the US.
(Before meeting Biden, the
Ukrainian President visited a Munitions Factory in Pennsylvania.)
Zelensky also intends to present
the plan to Congress and the two candidates in the US presidential election:
Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. He is expected to ramp up
efforts to persuade the US and its allies to allow Ukraine to fire the missiles
they supplied deep into Russian territory for the first time in the war. Zelensky's
visit to the US coincides with efforts from the White House to prepare a new
$375m (£283m) military aid package for Ukraine. This autumn would
"determine the future of this war," Zelensky wrote in a post on X. In
a statement ahead of the visit, the Ukrainian leader previewed three elements
to his plan: further weapons donations, diplomatic efforts to force Russia to
agree to peace, and holding Moscow accountable for its full-scale invasion in
2022.
Ukraine has been pleading for
months for the US, UK and other Western allies to ease restrictions on the use
of long-range missiles so it can strike targets in Russia which Kyiv says are
used to launch attacks. Earlier in September, Russian President Vladimir Putin
warned Western countries that he would consider long-range missile strikes to
be "direct participation" by the Nato military alliance in the war. When
asked by reporters on Sunday whether he had made a decision on allowing Ukraine
to use US-made long-range weapons, Biden answered: "No."
Trump has previously criticised
US support for Ukraine and spoken highly of Putin, but said he would
"probably" meet Zelensky. The ex-president previously flagged his own
plan to end the war "within 24 hours" if re-elected in November, but
has not given details. According to Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who
he met in March, Trump has vowed to "not give a penny in the
Ukraine-Russia war. That is why the war will end". Zelensky's statement
also voiced gratitude for the support from Ukraine's allies to date, singling
out the US in particular as its "leading supporter".
The US has been the largest
foreign donor to Ukraine, and to date has provided $56bn for its defence.
After arriving in the US on
Sunday, Zelensky stopped in Biden's birth town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to
visit a munitions factory involved in supplying the Ukrainian war effort. After
Washington, Zelensky is expected to head to New York and the United Nations for
a planned meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday and a speech at the
General Assembly on Wednesday.
^ The United States (regardless
if a Republican or a Democrat is President) needs to continue to support
Ukraine with Money and Weapons until Russia ends its War. ^
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