Kiev., Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky arrived in the United States this Sunday to present to his American counterpart Joe Biden the details of his “plan for the victory” to end the Russian invasion.
“We arrived in the United States of America,” Zelensky said on social media. “The plan for Ukraine’s victory will be on the table of all our alliess”he added.
Zelensky will also present his proposals to the presidential candidates, the Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump.
The visit comes after a summer of intense fighting. Moscow is advancing rapidly eastern Ukraine and kyiv cling to swaths of Russia’s Kursk region.
It also comes as kyiv completes several weeks of unsuccessful pressure on West to allow it to use long-range weapons to attack targets within from Russia.
Zelensky hopes that at their meeting on Thursday, Biden will change his mind.
And “decisive autumn
The Ukrainian leader visited a munitions factory in Pennsylvania on Sunday, where They produce 155 mm artillery shells.
“I began my visit to the United States by expressing my gratitude to all the employees of the plant,” Zelensky posted on the X network.
“It is in these types of places where you can really feel that the democratic world can prevail,” he said.
His visit will continue in New York and Washington.
The Ukrainian president predicted that the coming weeks will decide how they will end more of 30 months of fighting, in which thousands of people have died.
“This fall will be decisive for what will follow” in the war, he stated hours before leaving. towards the United States, and added that Biden will be “the first to see complete” the Ukrainian proposals.
Dating Harris and Trump
A close adviser to the US president said this month that his administration He would use his remaining time in office to leave Ukraine “in the best possible position.” to prevail.”
Biden’s eventual successors have different plans on the Ukraine issue.
Harris expressed that she would continue with current policies, but Trump was very critical of the huge aid packages from Washington to kyiv.
While Zelensky’s plan is not known in detail, which he says will be complete by “beginning of November”, gave hints that there will be strengthening weapons.
The Ukrainian leader also stated that he plans to invite Russia to an eventual summit international peace agreement in November, a proposal that Moscow already rejected this end of week.
Russian President Vladimir Putin set a condition for entering into talks for Ukraine to hand over four of its regions.
““I think they both continue to bet on the possibility of a military victory,” said the Sunday the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, to CNN.
This weekend Russian attacks on Ukraine killed six people, including two children.
Ukraine reported attacking two weapons depots in Russia and a storage base of ammunition.
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