The Ukrainian leader has said he wants to present the plan to President Joe Biden and his two potential successors during the trip, which will see Zelensky addressing the UN General Assembly
President Volodymyr Zelensky travels to the United States to set out a “victory plan” to his closest ally this week, in an urgent attempt to influence White House policy on Ukraine ’s war with Russia no matter who wins the U.S. elections in November.
He added that the plan would act as a “bridge” to a second Ukraine-led summit on peace that Kyiv wants to hold and invite Russia to later this year. As the election nears, Kyiv has put on a show of strength, rapidly seizing land in a high-risk Aug. 6 incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, touting new weapons including a “drone missile” and ballistic weapon and launching major drone strikes.Russia has ramped up drone and missile attacks, taken receipt of Iranian ballistic missiles, according to the West, ordered an increase in the size of its army, moved to change its nuclear doctrine and stepped up its eastern offensive.
Oleksandr Kovalenko, a Ukrainian military analyst, said Zelensky might press for longer-term assurances of aid into 2025 and seek some kind of declaration of post-Biden continuity in support. Russia, which occupies 18 per cent of Ukrainian territory, has been on the offensive since last October and in August chalked up its fastest sustained recent month of advances.
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