US to discuss war strategy with Zelenskiy, prepare support package this month

Zelenskiy has stated he needs to exhibit a “victory knowing” that could well perchance push Russia to total its battle in Ukraine diplomatically to Biden and his two ability successors

Reuters

15 September, 2024, 11:35 am

Last modified: 15 September, 2024, 11:37 am

US President Joe Biden is taking a watch forward to discussing Ukraine’s battle technique with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy this month and Washington is working on a “wide” new support equipment, White Home Nationwide Security Adviser Jake Sullivan stated on Saturday.

Zelenskiy has stated he needs to exhibit a “victory knowing” that could well perchance push Russia to total its battle in Ukraine diplomatically to Biden and his two ability successors.

“I create think we want a comprehensive technique for success in this battle and that’s what President Zelenskiy says he’s bringing, so we’re very out of the ordinary taking a watch forward to sitting down and talking that via and President Biden is alive to for that dialog,” Sullivan stated.

He spoke by video hyperlink on the Yalta European Strategy conference organised by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Kyiv.

Sullivan stated the US furthermore aimed to put collectively a “wide” make stronger equipment with diversified capabilities by the end of the month because it labored to live a wide Russian step forward in Ukraine’s east.

Russian forces were gaining floor in sides of eastern Ukraine along with round Pokrovsk, an dwelling that Sullivan stated used to be of “peculiar thunder”.

The take grasp of of the transport hub could well perchance enable Moscow to open new traces of attack and complicate Ukrainian logistics.

As Russia has stepped up its missile attacks on Ukraine’s essential infrastructure this 300 and sixty five days, Kyiv has pleaded for prolonged-range weapons to strike deeper into Russian territory.

Sullivan stated the matter used to be the matter of “intense consultations” among allies and companions, and would furthermore be discussed between Biden and Zelenskiy.