Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that Ukraine's “plan for victory”, which he will present to US President Joe Biden by the end of this month, is “fully prepared”.
In his daily address to the nation, Zelensky argued that “the most important thing now is the determination to implement” this plan.
“There is not and cannot be any alternative solution to peace, any freezing of the war or other manipulations that would only displace Russian aggression,” he stressed, referring to the war that Russia has been waging on Ukrainian territory since it invaded the neighboring country on February 24, 2022.
According to Zelensky, “all the points and all the essential aspects” of the plan, the content of which he has not yet revealed, are ready.
Last week, the Ukrainian President indicated that he would meet Joe Biden in September to present him with “a plan for victory” for Ukraine against Russia.
He said then that it was a “set of interconnected solutions that will give Ukraine enough power, enough things to put this war on the road to peace”.
Struggling on the ground in the face of a vast Russian offensive in the east of the country, Ukraine has asked the West to authorize it to attack military targets on Russian soil and to help it shoot down missiles aimed at its territory, but the Americans and Europeans fear that this could lead Moscow to escalate the conflict into a direct confrontation.
Zelensky has decided that Kiev will present its plan to end the war in November, at a peace summit to which Russia will be invited.
Russia invaded Ukraine on the grounds of protecting the pro-Russian separatist minorities in the east and “denazifying” the neighboring country, which has been independent since 1991 - after the break-up of the former Soviet Union - and has been moving away from Moscow's sphere of influence and closer to Europe and the West.
The war in Ukraine has claimed tens of thousands of lives on both sides, and recent months have been marked by large-scale Russian airstrikes against Ukrainian cities and infrastructure, while Kiev forces have been targeting targets on Russian territory close to the border and on the Crimean peninsula, illegally annexed in 2014.
Already in the third year of the war, the Ukrainian armed forces have faced a shortage of soldiers, arms and ammunition, despite repeated promises of help from Western allies, which have since begun to materialize.
In recent weeks, the more numerous and better equipped Russian troops have continued their advance on the eastern front, despite the Ukrainian offensive in Russia's Kursk region.
Negotiations between the two sides have been completely blocked since the spring of 2022, with Moscow continuing to demand that Ukraine accept the annexation of part of its territory.
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