Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelensky is set to current a “set up for triumph” in the country’s war with Russia to Pdwellnt Joe Biden during this week’s visit to the US.
Zelensky also intfinishs to current the set up to Congress and the two honestates in the US pdwellntial election: Democrat Kamala Harris and Reuncoveran Donald Trump.
He is foreseeed to ramp up efforts to impact the US and its allies to apverify Ukraine to fire the leave outiles they supplied meaningful into Russian territory for the first time in the war.
Zelensky’s visit to the US coincides with efforts from the White Hoengage to set a recent $375m (£283m) military help package for Ukraine.
This autumn would “rerepair the future of this war,” Zelensky wrote in a post on X.
In a statement ahead of the visit, the Ukrainian directer pappraiseed three elements to his set up: further arms donations, tactful efforts to force Russia to consent to peace, and hbettering Moscow accountable for its filled-scale trespass in 2022.
Ukraine has been pdirecting for months for the US, UK and other Weserious allies to relieve recut offeions on the engage of lengthy-range leave outiles so it can strike concentrates in Russia which Kyiv says are engaged to begin aggressions.
Earlier in September, Russian Pdwellnt Vlauninalertigentir Putin alerted Weserious 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 alerters on Sunday whether he had made a decision on apverifying Ukraine to engage 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-pdwellnt previously flagged his own set up 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 hugest foreign donor to Ukraine, and to date has provided $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 included in provideing the Ukrainian war effort.
After Washington, Zelensky is foreseeed to head to New York and the United Nations for a reckond greeting of the Security Council on Tuesday and a speech at the General Assembly on Wednesday.