Zelenskyy in US to present latest peace plan to Biden, Harris, Trump

Ukrainian president begins high-stakes travel with sojourn to weapons mill successful Pennsylvania.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun a high-stakes sojourn to the United States during which helium volition contiguous Kyiv’s program to extremity the much than two-and-a-half-year-old war against invading Russian forces to US President Joe Biden arsenic good arsenic predetermination rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

Zelenskyy, who volition besides be the yearly gathering of the United Nations connected Tuesday and Wednesday, urged Ukraine’s allies to assistance execute “a shared triumph for a genuinely conscionable peace”.

He is expected to contiguous his bid proposals, which helium has dubbed a “victory plan”, to Biden connected Thursday, earlier aboriginal gathering Harris, who is vice president. His bureau has said helium expects to conscionable Republican campaigner Trump connected Thursday oregon Friday, though nary day has been officially announced.

The Ukrainian president is successful the US aft a summertime of intense fighting: with Moscow advancing successful eastbound Ukraine and Kyiv occupying tracts of Russia’s Kursk region.

Zelenskyy made an unannounced halt nether extraordinarily choky information astatine a Pennsylvania munitions works which manufactures 155-millimetre artillery shells.

The shells are captious to Ukraine’s warfare effort and it has already received much than 3 cardinal of them from the US.

“I began my sojourn to the United States by expressing my gratitude to each the employees astatine the plant,” Zelenskyy wrote successful a station connected X, including photos of him shaking hands with workers astatine the factory.

“It is successful places similar this wherever you tin genuinely consciousness that the antiauthoritarian satellite tin prevail,” helium wrote.

No details connected Ukraine’s latest bid proposals person been made public.

Zelenskyy said Biden would beryllium the archetypal overseas person to spot the program “in full” and that it would past besides beryllium presented to “all leaders of our spouse countries”.

He has said that the “entire plan” volition beryllium acceptable by “early November”.

The proposals, helium told the media connected Friday, envisage “quick and factual steps by our strategical partners”.

One of those steps, helium said, was “related to strengthening Ukraine’s weapons capabilities” portion different demanded a “clear spot for Ukraine successful the world’s information architecture”.

The 155mm shells made successful the Scranton works are utilized successful howitzer systems, which are ample guns with agelong barrels that tin onslaught targets up to 15 miles to 20 miles (24 to 32km).

Zelenskyy has besides been pushing the US and different allies to let it to usage Western-supplied long-range weapons to onslaught subject targets heavy wrong Russia.

Biden has truthful acold resisted, with Moscow claiming specified authorisation would beryllium akin to NATO countries being “at war” with Russia.

Zelenskyy’s sojourn besides coincides with US preparations for a caller $375m subject assistance bundle for Ukraine.

Two US officials told the Reuters quality bureau past week that the bundle would see patrol boats, further ammunition for high-mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) arsenic good arsenic 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition.

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