The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky came to the United States to participate in the events of the UN General Assembly.
Vladimir Zelensky came to the United States to meet with the leaders of the countries of the Global South, G7, Europe, as well as with the heads of international organizations. He began his visit with a visit to a plant in Pennsylvania, where they produce 155 mm artillery shells for the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
Decisive months of the war
Zelensky said the next few months will be decisive in Russia’s war against Ukraine. “We don’t have much time. The next few months will be decisive in this war – Russia’s war against Ukraine and all of you, because it is Russia’s war against freedom. We have little time to determine what the consequences will be, and we must determine it – not Russia and not its bloody allies,” the head of state emphasized in his speech at the award ceremony of the American Academy of Achievement .
According to Zelensky, it is necessary not to lose the next few months in the war, so that the next decades are not dangerous.
Plan for success
The main reason why the Ukrainian leader came to the United States was to present the “success plan” developed by Kiev to the White House and both US presidential candidates:
“And I presented this plan to America: to President Biden, to Congress, to both presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and to all our allies around the world. I believe it will be a common success our for freedom, without any compromise at the expense of freedom.”
The plan consists of four main points, British The Times reported, citing unidentified Western diplomats.
The first point involves a request for security guarantees from the West, similar to the mutual defense agreement that NATO member countries receive. According to the publication, the second paragraph refers to the continuation of the operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation in order to obtain a “territorial trump card.” The third point of the plan contains a request for “certain” modern weapons, and the fourth – international financial assistance to restore the Ukrainian economy.
Without forcing peace
The Times writes that during his visit to the United States, Zelensky will ask for security guarantees to prevent Ukraine from being forced into an unpopular peace deal that Republican Donald Trump could propose if he wins the presidential election in November.
The Ukrainian president also wanted to “reaffirm” American support following statements by Trump and his ally JD Vance that the war could be ended by making territorial concessions in favor of Russia.
In addition, a diplomat from one of the NATO countries said that the current US President Joe Biden is unlikely to give permission to Ukraine to use long-range Storm Shadow missiles for territorial attacks of Russia.
On the eve of Zelensky’s visit, the American magazine The New Yorker published a long interview with the President of Ukraine. It also talks about a “plan for success.” “This plan means that we are changing the current course, where only thanks to the strength of our military, the heroic devotion to the European values of our people and our fighters, we have stood. If you do not want to this war will last, if you don’t want Putin to bury us under the corpses of his people, taking more Ukrainian lives in the process, we offer you a plan to strengthen Ukraine . This is not fantasy or science fiction, and, importantly, it does not require the Russians to cooperate in order to achieve success,” Zelensky said in an interview. He emphasized that the plan was developed taking into account the fact that it will be supported, first of all, by Joe Biden.
If Biden says “no” to Zelensky’s plan, it means that the US President “does not want to end the war in which Russia does not achieve victory,” the Ukrainian president believes. Because of this, in his opinion, the war will continue and continue for a long time.
Source: korrespondent
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