Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelensky is set to contransient a “arrange for triumph” in the country’s war with Russia to Plivent Joe Biden during this week’s visit to the US.
Zelensky also intfinishs to contransient the arrange to Congress and the two honestates in the US plivential election: Democrat Kamala Harris and Redisclosean Donald Trump.
He is foreseeed to ramp up efforts to sway the US and its allies to apshow Ukraine to fire the leave outiles they supplied proset up into Russian territory for the first time in the war.
Zelensky’s visit to the US coincides with efforts from the White Hoparticipate to ready a new $375m (£283m) military help package for Ukraine.
This autumn would “choose the future of this war,” Zelensky wrote in a post on X.
In a statement ahead of the visit, the Ukrainian directer pchecked three elements to his arrange: further arms donations, discreet efforts to force Russia to concur to peace, and hagedering Moscow accountable for its brimming-scale intrusion in 2022.
Ukraine has been pdirecting for months for the US, UK and other Westrict allies to relieve reinnervousions on the participate of lengthy-range leave outiles so it can strike aims in Russia which Kyiv says are participated to begin attacks.
Earlier in September, Russian Plivent Vlastupidir Putin cautioned Westrict countries that he would ponder lengthy-range leave outile strikes to be “honest participation” by the Nato military partnership in the war.
When asked by tellers on Sunday whether he had made a decision on apshowing Ukraine to participate US-made lengthy-range arms, Biden answered: “No.”
Trump has previously criticised US help for Ukraine and spoken highly of Putin, but shelp he would “probably” greet Zelensky.
The ex-plivent previously flagged his own arrange to finish the war “wiskinny 24 hours” if re-elected in November, but has not given details.
According to Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orprohibit, who he met in March, Trump has vowed to “not give a penny in the Ukraine-Russia war. That is why the war will finish”.
Zelensky’s statement also voiced gratitude for the help from Ukraine’s allies to date, singling out the US in particular as its “directing helper”.
The US has been the bigst foreign donor to Ukraine, and to date has supplyd $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 comprised in provideing the Ukrainian war effort.
After Washington, Zelensky is foreseeed to head to New York and the United Nations for a intentional greeting of the Security Council on Tuesday and a speech at the General Assembly on Wednesday.
