KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine will current its “victory plan” to its allies in Germany subsequent weekend, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned on Saturday, organising a check of assist for Kyiv’s imaginative and prescient on ending the conflict with Russia.
“We will present the victory plan, clear, specific steps for a just end to the war,” Zelenskiy wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
Zelenskiy will meet U.S. President Joe Biden and different leaders at a daily assembly of Kyiv’s key NATO and different allies on the U.S. Ramstein Air Base on Oct. 12.
Ukraine, warding off an invasion from a lot bigger neighbour for almost 1,000 days, suffered a significant setback on the battlefield on Wednesday, when Russian forces took the jap city of Vuhledar after two years of resistance.
Zelenskiy mentioned in his nightly video deal with that his authorities, army and diplomatic officers will do “everything” they will in coming days to make sure that the Ramstein assembly can develop into “positive for our defence, for our vision of how the war should end”.
He offered the plan to Biden and each the candidates operating to succeed him, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, final week after months of Kyiv’s teasing concepts on finish the conflict.
The White Home mentioned Zelenskiy’s plan contained “a number of productive steps”.
However a U.S. official described it a repackaged request for extra weapons and a lifting of restrictions on the usage of long-range missiles. The plan presupposes the final word defeat of Russia within the conflict, the official mentioned. Some officers see that goal as unrealistic.
The Monetary Occasions, citing unnamed diplomats, reported on Saturday that Ukraine ceding land to Russia to realize NATO membership often is the “only game in town”. However Ukrainian media cited a supply in Zelenskiy’s workplace as saying Kyiv doesn’t “trade sovereignty and territories” and calling the report “simply chatter”.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin mentioned in June that Moscow would finish the conflict he launched in February 2022 provided that Kyiv agreed at hand over all of 4 areas claimed by Moscow and to drop its ambitions to affix NATO. Kyiv rejected these calls for as tantamount to give up.
(Reporting and writing by Max Hunder; Extra reporting and writing by Lidia Kelly; Modifying by Jason Neely and William Mallard)
