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Ahead of a trip to Washington, the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Friday that he hoped US President Joe Biden would support his plan to end the war with Russia.
Recall that on 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.
The invasion, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties.
Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas War. These first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents and cyberwarfare.
Following the prolonged engagement of war, Zelensky has promised to present his so-called “victory plan” to end the fighting, which has killed thousands, to Biden in the coming days
Zelensky who spoke at a press conference with EU chief, Ursula Von der Leyen in Kyiv, added, “I really hope that he (Biden) will support this plan to end the war."
“The plan is designed for decisions that will have to happen from October to December… We would like that very much. Then we believe that the plan will work,” he added.
Zelensky will present the plan to the United States after a summer of intense fighting, with Moscow advancing in eastern Ukraine and Kyiv holding on to parts of Russia’s Kursk region.
The Ukrainian leader is due to meet Biden and presidential candidate Kamala Harris — while Kyiv also said it planned to meet Kamala's Republican election rival Donald Trump.
Zelensky also said he aimed to host another international peace summit outlining his vision to end the war in November, to which Russia would be invited.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow will only enter peace talks if Ukraine surrenders four of its regions.
AFP.
