Ukraine’s Zelenskiy to present ‘victory plan’ at Ramstein meeting

Zelenskiy will meet US President Joe Biden and different leaders at a typical meeting of Kyiv’s key NATO and different allies at the US Ramstein Air Unfriendly on Oct. 1

Reuters

06 October, 2024, 01:20 pm

Final modified: 06 October, 2024, 01:28 pm

Ukraine will present its “victory belief” to its allies in Germany next weekend, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, establishing a take a look at of enhance for Kyiv’s vision on ending the warfare with Russia.

“We can present the victory belief, clear, narrate steps for a proper end to the warfare,” Zelenskiy wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

Zelenskiy will meet US President Joe Biden and different leaders at a typical meeting of Kyiv’s key NATO and different allies at the US Ramstein Air Unfriendly on Oct. 12.

Ukraine, heading off an invasion from its much increased neighbour for virtually 1,000 days, suffered a major setback on the battlefield on Wednesday, when Russian forces took the eastern town of Vuhledar after two years of resistance.

Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address that his executive, protection pressure and diplomatic officers will enact “every little thing” they’ll in coming days to guarantee that that the Ramstein meeting can change into “sure for our defence, for our vision of how the warfare would possibly perhaps presumably perchance believe to serene end”.

He offered the belief to Biden and both the candidates working to be triumphant him, Vice President Kamala Harris and feeble President Donald Trump, final week after months of Kyiv’s teasing suggestions on full the warfare.

The White Apartment said Zelenskiy’s belief contained “slightly lots of productive steps”.

Nonetheless a US reliable described it as a repackaged place a matter to for added weapons and a lifting of restrictions on the utilization of prolonged-range missiles. The belief presupposes the supreme defeat of Russia within the warfare, the reliable said. Some officers look that aim as unrealistic.

The Monetary Instances, citing unnamed diplomats, reported on Saturday that Ukraine ceding land to Russia to develop NATO membership would possibly perhaps presumably perchance be the “easiest game on the town”. Nonetheless Ukrainian media cited a source in Zelenskiy’s place of labor as asserting Kyiv would no longer “substitute sovereignty and territories” and calling the memoir “merely chatter”.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said in June that Moscow would end the warfare he launched in February 2022 easiest if Kyiv agreed to give up all of four areas claimed by Moscow and to topple its ambitions to affix NATO. Kyiv rejected those demands as tantamount to resign.