Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy touched down in Ottawa late Thursday night — and experts say the political headwinds he'll face in Canada likely will be less chilly than those he experienced in Washington.
Zelenskyy is on a two-day visit which will conclude with a stop in Toronto for a meeting with the business community.Along with his new defence minister, Rustem Umerov, Zelenskyy will meet and brief federal cabinet ministers on the progress the Ukrainian military has made since it launched a counteroffensive in June to drive Russian forces out of the country.It's expected Ottawa will announce further military and social assistance while Zelenskyy is in the country.
Zelenskyy won generally favourable reviews from U.S. lawmakers for his pitch for further war assistance. "Although the Republican party is divided, it's not going full anti-Ukraine, pro-Trump on that score," he said.One of Zelenskyy's objectives in Ottawa — as it was in Washington — will be to reassure lawmakers that his country is making progress in its counteroffensive in the east and south and Ukraine has a strategy for victory, Arel said.
Coming out of a briefing with Zelenskyy on Capitol Hill on Thursday, U.S. Republican Sen. Josh Hawley dismissively described what he heard from his colleagues and the Ukrainian leader as a plea to "buckle up and get out your chequebook." Matthew Schmidt of the University of New Haven said it will become increasingly difficult to get large defence aid packages through Congress in the coming months.
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