““It is important for us that the United States supports Ukraine’s victory plan, not capitulation or freezing””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Bild” spread the fake. “Bild” has not seen the victory plan, and none of the few people currently involved by the president in the preparation of the victory plan spoke to “Bild”. No one will present Minsk-3 or any other to the Russians. Ukraine is against any freezing of the war, and the authorities of Ukraine are talking about it at all levels. And it is important for us that the United States supports Ukraine’s plan for victory, not capitulation or freezing,” said presidential communications adviser Dmytro Lytvyn, whose comment is available to RFE/RL.
According to him, the victory plan will be presented first to the United States, because the United States “is able to ensure the implementation of its content.”
The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Heorhiy Tykhy, said that Ukraine does not want a freeze on the war.
“No, Ukraine does not plan to agree to any “freezing” of the war. The source who said this does not know about President Zelenskyi’s plan. The elements that the president will introduce to the US will undoubtedly strengthen, not weaken, Ukraine and its soldiers,” the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote on X’s social network.
The German publication Bild wrote the day before, citing its sources, that President Volodymyr Zelensky, who during his visit to the USA plans to present his victory strategy, may declare his readiness to agree to a local ceasefire in certain areas of the front and thus temporarily freeze the situation.
At the beginning of this month, Zelenskyi said that Ukraine would present a victory plan to the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and both presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
On August 27, Zelenskyi said that he may hold a meeting with US President Joe Biden in September. He expressed hope that he will be able to attend the meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York at the end of the month.
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Also, at his press conference in August, the President of Ukraine said that the operation of the Defense Forces in the Kursk region is part of Ukraine’s victory plan.
On August 19, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov repeated the statement of Russian leader Vladimir Putin from August 12 that after the Ukrainian offensive in Kurshchyna there is no question of negotiations.
The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) is convinced that, in this way, Russian officials continued their attempts to blame Ukraine for the lack of negotiations to end the war.