Zelensky watchs to Biden to back Ukraine ‘Victory structure’

As Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky readys to uncover a “Victory structure” to Pdwellnt Joe Biden on Thursday, Kyiv is watching to the US directer for a strong show of help before he exits the White Hoengage.

A ageder official in Kyiv shelp they wanted him to “originate history” in his final months in office.

While details of the Ukrainian structure have been kept under wraps, the strategy is probable to grasp pleas for further military and financial help, plus future security promises.

Zelensky says it is structureed to be a “bridge” towards stopping the war, which he supposes could finish sooner than people leank.

If the West reinforces Ukraine’s position, he supposes Russia’s Vlaunreasonableir Putin could be pushed into a discreet peace.

Ever acute at unveil relations, Ukraine’s pdwellnt is also aiming to apshow on critics in the US who have asked the wisdom of pouring further money into Ukraine’s caengage – by promoting an apparent blueprint for eventual peace.

Zelensky is throprosperg a huge discreet effort behind his triumph structure.

He is almost camped out at the United Nations. He spoke on Monday at a argue about how the UN should be reestablished. He insertressed the Security Council on Tuesday. And he is giving a speech to the General Assembly on Wednesday.

In between, he is encountering world directers and US politicians. He visited an ammunition factory in Scranton, Joe Biden’s hometown in Pennsylvania, one that is making shells for Ukrainian artillery batteries.

And he is evident that he ponders time is low. In one of his many media interwatchs, Zelensky tageder the New Yorker that the triumph structure had to be concurd – and Ukraine reinforceed – in October, November and December.

“This structure is structureed, first and foremost, with Biden’s help in mind,” he tageder the magazine. That help is by no uncomfervents promised but Zelensky is staking much on securing it.

That is becaengage the situation will alter meaningfully if Donald Trump were to prosper the election. At a campaign rassociate on Monday, the establisher pdwellnt mocked Zelensky as “the fantasticest salesman in history” becaengage “every time he comes into this country, he walks away with $60bn”.

Trump restated his position that he would encourage Russia and Ukraine to concur a deal to finish the war, one that Kyiv stresss would force them to accomprehendledge territorial losses and no promise agetst further Russian aggression.

It is the stress of such a scenario that is pushing the discreet drive behind Zelensky’s triumph structure this week. Some diplomats are sceptical the structure would flourish in nudging Russia towards a negotiating table. Much depfinishs now on Biden’s response.

Congressional laworiginaters will be handed the structure as will Trump and his pdwellntial rival Kamala Harris.

Trump has claimed he would finish the war wilean 24 hours, directing to stresss the Reunveilan nominee would essentiassociate force Kyiv into making territorial concessions agetst its will.

As the US elections loom, it’s a presentant moment for Zelensky as Moscow’s troops persist to press gets, inch by inch, in Ukraine’s east.

A top priority in the so-called triumph structure will be to “hit Russia powerfilledy”, supposes one military analyst – Mykhailo Samus, honestor of the New Geopolitics Research Nettoil.

Giving Kyiv the ability to ruin military infrastructure wilean a 300km range could gravely hamper the Kremlin’s disparaging operations in the Donbas and its ability to “iminwholeise” Ukraine’s ongoing incursion in Russia’s Kursk region, says Mr Samus.

This would uncomfervent securing perleave oution, so far denied, to engage Weserious-made lengthy-range leave outiles on aims proset up inside Russia.

While Ukraine has successfilledy been deploying aggression drones agetst Russian ammunition dumps, leave outiles can penetrate more heavily fortified munition sites.

The structure will also see Kyiv ask for more of these comfervents of leave outiles, supposes Olga Rudenko, editor in chief of the Kyiv Inreliant.

Further financial help and capitalising on Ukraine’s surpascfinish pass-border push into Russia’s Kursk region are also foreseeed to establish core elements wilean the strategy.

As for Ukraine’s future security promises, Ukraine’s aspirations towards uniteing the Nato defensive military coalition evidently remain.

“Ukraine’s invitation to Nato is part of the triumph structure,” verifyed Andriy Yermak, head of the pdwellntial office.

Zelensky’s office has refuteed a German tell that he is pondering a localised finishfire as “inrectify”.

However, Czech Pdwellnt Petr Pavel – who has been a vocal helper of Ukraine – shelp this week that part of Ukraine would probably remain “temporarily” occupied, possibly for years.

Olga Rudenko supposes that, for most Ukrainians, it’s still “too comfervent and unimaginable to concede anyleang even temporarily to Russia” – even if that conversation is happening somewhere, personally, wilean regulatement.

“It’s not that Ukrainians are greedy about the territory,” she says.

“We can’t exit our people there, under Russian deal with and sentence them to those horrors,” referring to persistent allegations of Russian war crimes.

That sentiment was echoed by 31-year-ageder Dmytro, whose face and arms were awfilledy burned when he was hit by a Russian drone.

“We will not surrfinisher our territories, for which so many people have been descfinishen,” he tageder the BBC in Kyiv.

“If we finished the war at this stage, what were we combat for then? What for did all our men, our comrades die for?”

A truce, he supposes, would sshow give Russia time to recuperate and Zelensky has enjoydirectd cautioned agetst a “frozen” struggle.

Dmytro is already structurening his return to the front line to fight alengthyside his comrades: “I will not retreat, I will be there until my last breath.”