Briefing on the Ukraine war: Trump likely to snub Zelensky as Biden supports Kyiv | Ukraine

A representative of Trump’s campaign team said the Republican candidate would not meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week because he is in the United States.No meeting between the two is planned, the official told the Associated Press, although Ukrainian officials said last week that Zelensky had planned to meet the former president.

Donald Trump said the US must “get out” of the war in Ukraine and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have no plans to do so“Biden and Kamala got us into this war in Ukraine, and now they can’t get us out,” Trump said in a speech in Georgia. The US has no troops in Ukraine, but has provided military and humanitarian aid. In his speech in Savannah, Trump mentioned two historic conflicts to show that Moscow would not lose. “What happens if they win? That’s what they do, they fight wars. As someone said to me the other day, they defeated Hitler, they defeated Napoleon. That’s what they do. They fight. And it’s not pleasant.”

Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine had failed and called on the UN to continue supporting Kyiv until victory.“Putin’s war failed in its core objective. He wanted to destroy Ukraine, but Ukraine is still free,” Biden said in his final speech as president to the UN General Assembly. He said the war had led to a strategic realignment that strengthened NATO and brought two new countries, Finland and Sweden, into the security pact. “We must not grow weary,” he said as Zelensky looked on. “We must not look away. We will not abandon our support for Ukraine. Not until Ukraine wins a just and lasting peace.”

The United States will supply Ukraine with an unspecified number of medium-range cluster bombs, as well as a range of missiles, artillery and armored vehicles. in a military aid package totaling about $375 million, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The expected announcement comes as world leaders gather for the U.N. General Assembly. The latest weapons package, provided through the presidential authorization for force withdrawals, is one of the largest approved in recent memory and will take supplies off Pentagon shelves to deliver the weapons to Ukraine more quickly. Including this latest package, the U.S. has provided more than $56.2 billion worth of security assistance to Ukraine since the Russian invasion.

This comes as nearly $6 billion in aid to Ukraine could expire at the end of the month unless Congress decides to expand the Pentagon’s authority to send weapons from its arsenal to Kyiv.The U.S. “will find a way” to use the remaining aid before Biden’s term ends in January, a senior State Department official said Tuesday. “I think it is very unlikely that President Biden will end his term with appropriated funds that are not used for the purpose for which they were allocated by Congress,” the official said.

In a powerful speech to the UN Security Council, Zelensky called on a broad alliance of states to “force Russia to make peace.”and said that Vladimir Putin had violated the foundations of the United Nations and that the war “cannot be won by talks alone.” Zelensky accused Moscow of committing “international crimes” by attacking Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure, and claimed he had evidence that Putin was planning to attack three Ukrainian nuclear power plants to further damage the country’s energy grid.

Zelenskyy said his “victory plan” was not to negotiate with Russia but to find a way to end the conflict diplomatically.. The head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak, confirmed that the invitation to join NATO is part of Ukraine’s so-called “victory plan”. Zelensky has not yet announced any details. He is expected to present the plan to Biden this week.

Zelensky will address the UN General Assembly on Wednesday and meet with US presidential candidate Kamala Harris.and Joe Biden during his trip to the USA this week.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called for a plan for talks between Russia and Ukraine to resolve the conflicta proposal that has already been rejected by the Ukrainian president. Zelensky has dismissed the proposal as “destructive” and insisted that his summit initiative is the only viable peace format. The Chinese-Brazilian proposal, made public in May, calls for de-escalation of the situation and the resumption of direct dialogue without Russia having to withdraw.

Three civilians were killed and more than 30 injured in Russian attacks on a residential area in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Tuesday afternoon.Ukrainian officials said. Kharkiv is about 30 kilometers from the Russian border and has been hit by Russian airstrikes during the two-and-a-half-year war. “The targets of the Russian bombs were a residential building, a bakery, a stadium. In other words, the everyday life of ordinary people,” Zelensky said on social media.

Russian parliamentarians have approved new measures to make it easier for the army to recruit suspected criminals for the war in Ukraine.. Moscow has made extensive use of prisoners during its two-and-a-half-year military campaign. Russia’s State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on Tuesday backed a new bill that would allow defendants currently on trial to report to the army.