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.
ALSO READ War in Ukraine: the United States will supply long-range weapons to kyivVolodymyr 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,” Joe Biden said Thursday from the Oval Office. In order to “help Ukraine win this war”, he had earlier announced an “increase in security aid”. “My support for the Ukrainian people is unwavering,” said Vice-President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, during a separate meeting with the Ukrainian president.
“Surrender”
“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. 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.
ALSO READ “The greatest salesman on the planet”: Donald Trump attacks Volodymyr ZelenskyThe 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 states that the Republican candidate “doesn’t really know how to stop this war”.
“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.
