Zelensky receives support from Biden and Harris, before meeting Trump

Volodymyr Zelensky, who received a new aid package from Joe Biden and the support of Kamala Harris on Thursday in Washington, will have a much more delicate meeting on Friday with Donald Trump, who is very critical of massive American aid to Ukraine.

“As you know, Zelensky asked to meet me. I will meet him tomorrow morning around 9:45 a.m. at Trump Tower in New York, the former president and Republican candidate for the White House announced Thursday.

“I think I will be able to quickly conclude an agreement between President Putin and President Zelensky,” he said, assuring that he did not want a “capitulation” of Ukraine, as his Democratic rival for the White House, Kamala Harris.

Volodymyr Zelensky will arrive at their meeting assured of the support of the current administration, but obviously worried about American aid in the event of Donald Trump’s victory in the November 5 election, which promises to be very close.

“Russia will not win”

“Russia will not win,” Joe Biden said Thursday from the Oval Office. In order to “help Ukraine win this war”, he had announced a little earlier an “increase in security aid” – but without the green light hoped for by kyiv to fire missile missiles towards Russia. long range made in the USA.

“My support for the Ukrainian people is unwavering,” said Vice-President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, during a separate meeting with the Ukrainian president.

“There are people in my country who would force Ukraine to give up large portions of its sovereign territory, who would demand that Ukraine declare itself neutral, and who would demand that Ukraine renounce military relations with other countries. These proposals are the same as those of Putin and they are not peace proposals. These are proposals for capitulation, which is dangerous and irresponsible,” she added.

The target of these remarks is clear: former President Donald Trump, Republican candidate for the White House, who has strongly attacked Volodymyr Zelensky in recent days, accusing him of preventing an “agreement” to end the war.

According to the American press, the former president did not appreciate an interview given by Volodymyr Zelensky to the “New Yorker” magazine – in which the Ukrainian leader claims that the Republican candidate “doesn’t really know how to stop this war.”

“The best salesperson on the planet”

“We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal, Zelensky,” Donald Trump denounced Wednesday during a campaign rally. “Every time he came to our country, he left with 60 billion dollars, I think he is the best salesman on the planet,” quipped the former president.

“This war can be won and a just peace can be concluded but only with the United States,” argued the Ukrainian head of state, who came to present his “plan for victory” to Washington.

Joe Biden announced that a high-level summit would be held in Germany with 50 countries allied with Ukraine on October 12. The 81-year-old democrat, a major architect of Western support for Ukraine since its invasion by Russia in February 2022, has decided to deploy 8 billion in aid in total.

Joe Biden, who will therefore leave power next January, continues to break down the envelope of 61 billion dollars voted painfully last April by a politically divided Congress.

In the morning, the Ukrainian president was received in Congress by the leaders of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in the Senate, both of whom wore yellow ties and blue shirts, the Ukrainian colors.

Moscow, whose troops have been making progress in recent months against kyiv’s forces, claimed Thursday the capture of Ukraïnsk, a town in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. The conquest of Donbass, the Ukrainian industrial basin which includes the Donetsk region, is President Putin’s “number one priority”.

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