Zelensky meets with Trump, the American presidential campaign in the background

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with former US President and White House candidate Donald Trump in New York on Friday, a delicate meeting amid repeated criticism from Republicans about massive US aid to Ukraine.

“As you know, Zelensky has asked to meet with me. I will meet with him tomorrow morning around 9:45 a.m. (1:45 p.m. GMT) at Trump Tower” in New York, Donald Trump announced Thursday during a speech to the media.

Volodymyr Zelensky will come to their meeting certain of support from the current administration, but obviously worried about American support if Donald Trump wins in the November 5 election, which promises to be very close.

Last week, the president of Ukraine announced that Mr. Zelensky planned to meet the former president when he visited the United States.

But this interview was arrested, according to the American media, the Republican did not appreciate an interview given by the leader of Ukraine to the New Yorker magazine – in which he said that he does not know the Republican candidate “how to. stop this war.”

Donald Trump has repeatedly said that if he was elected again, he would resolve the war between Russia and Ukraine “in 24 hours” – without explaining how.

“I think I can quickly conclude an agreement between President Putin and President Zelensky,” he reiterated on Thursday, confirming that he did not want a “capitulation” of Ukraine , as her Democratic rival for the White House says, Kamala Harris.

The day before, the Republican had directly attacked the leader of Ukraine, accusing him of “refusing to conclude an agreement” with Moscow.

– “The best seller on the planet” –

“We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal, Zelensky,” he said Wednesday at a campaign rally in North Carolina.

“Every time he came to our country, he left with 60 billion dollars, I think he is the best seller on the planet,” he said.

The meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky comes a day after the Ukrainian president visited Washington, where he spoke with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, after visiting the US Congress.

“Russia won’t win,” said Joe Biden when he got to the White House. To “help Ukraine win this war”, he had announced a little earlier “an increase in security assistance” – but without giving the green light to which kyiv was hoping to fire missiles towards Russia a long range made in the USA.

“This war can be won and a real peace can be concluded only with the United States,” said Volodymyr Zelensky, who came to present his “victory plan” aimed at stopping The Russian invasion that began on February 24, 2022.

– “Capitulation” –

“My support for the people of Ukraine is unconditional,” Democratic candidate Kamala Harris assured him at a separate meeting.

“There are people in my country who would force Ukraine to give up large parts of its sovereign territory, who would demand that Ukraine declare itself neutral, and who would demand that the Ukraine to reject military relations with other countries These proposals are the same as Putin’s proposals and they are not peace proposals They are capitulation proposals, which are dangerous and irresponsible,” she said in reference to her Republican rival Donald Trump.

Moscow, whose troops have been making advances in recent months against Kyiv’s forces, said Thursday that Ukraïnsk, a town in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, had been captured.

The conquest of Donbass, Ukraine’s industrial basin that includes the Donetsk region, is President Putin’s “top priority.”