Zelenskyi’s team rejected the idea of ​​meeting with Trump at his residence — Time

However, Zelenskyi’s team decided to abandon this idea because it could be perceived as supporting Trump in the elections, the American magazine Time reported on Thursday, September 26.

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Instead, as the publication claims, the Ukrainians offered to meet with Trump for more “neutral territory”, for example, on the set of an American TV channel for a joint interview.

One of the Ukrainian officials told the magazine that this option was still being discussed when Zelenskyi arrived in the US, but the first public event during the trip “changed the tone of those discussions,” Time notes.

On Sunday, Zelensky visited a weapons factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania — the city where President Biden was born and raised.

“It seems that he was offended,” said one of the Ukrainian officials about Trump.

The problem, he said, was choosing a place: the hometown of the current US president.

As Time writes, according to Zelensky’s entourage, if Kamala Harris wins, she is likely to prolong the policies of the Biden administration, which Zelensky and his advisers believe “too cautious and uncertain” in the war against Russia. Trump’s victory, on the other hand, opens up both risks and opportunities for Ukrainians, the magazine’s sources say.

This week, as Zelenskyi met with world leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York, Trump’s rhetoric changed and he began mocking Zelenskyi at his campaign rallies.

“These attacks surprised Ukrainians, because only two months ago, during a polite phone conversation, Trump promised Zelenskyi his support for Ukraine,” the publication notes.

Time notes that such changes “caused concern” in Ukraine, including in Zelenskyi’s team. However, they see no other way out than to continue trying to convince Trump and win his support, the publication adds.

“Of course we hear it all. But we still have to try,” an official from Zelenskyi’s entourage told Time, commenting on Trump’s latest statements.

The main hope, he added, is that “Trump’s views on war are not yet final,” and “his unpredictable nature may leave room for a change of position in favor of Ukraine.”

On September 26, the US presidential candidate from the Republican Party Donald Trump accused the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi of refusing to conclude a peace treaty with the aggressor country Russia.

On September 25, the Republican-led US House of Representatives Oversight Committee said it was investigating a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi to a munitions factory in Pennsylvania.