Vladimir Zelensky will meet with the new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on October 10 in London, The Telegraph writes. This will be Rutte’s first visit to the UK in his new role.
According to the publication, Zelensky’s trip will be part of a tour of Europe, during which he intends to present his “victory plan” to politicians. In London, the Ukrainian president will also meet with the British prime minister. Keir Starmer.
Rutte became the new Secretary General of NATO on October 1, after previously serving as Prime Minister of the Netherlands. During the period when the politician headed the government, Zelensky met with him. On October 3, Rutte visited kyiv, where he also met with Zelensky.
On October 12, Zelensky was due to meet with the president of the United States. joe bidenChancellor of Germany Olaf ScholzPresident of France Emmanuel Macron and Starmer as part of the contact group on assistance to Ukraine (Ramstein), but the event was cancelled. As Zelensky said, the reason for this was Hurricane Milton, which was approaching the United States; For this reason, Biden was forced to cancel his trip.
However, as Reuters and Bild reported the day before, Zelensky should arrive in Berlin on October 11 and meet with Scholz and the German president. Frank-Walter Steinmeier. According to Bild, Zelensky was going to present to the German Chancellor the “victory plan” that he had previously shown to Biden. On the same day, October 11, it must be accepted. Pope Franciswrote the publication in reference to the Vatican.
At the time of the announcement of the cancellation of the meeting in Ramstein format, Zelensky was in Croatia. The Ukrainian publication “Public” stated, citing its own sources, that Zelensky was due to visit Paris on October 10.
Zelensky’s “victory plan”, according to The Times, consists of five points, four of them: security guarantees for Ukraine from the West, “similar to a mutual defense pact upon joining NATO”, continuation of the operation the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region, a request for “specific” modern weapons and international financial assistance for Ukraine.
The Kremlin considered it premature to analyze Zelensky’s initiative until it was officially presented, and promised to achieve success within the framework of the military operation, regardless of Ukraine’s statements about the plan. In June, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin presented Moscow’s conditions for resolving the conflict, including: the recognition of the republics of the Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions as part of Russia, the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from there, the formal refusal of Ukraine to join alliances military and the lifting of sanctions. Kyiv called these conditions an ultimatum. Moscow rules out negotiations until Ukrainian forces are expelled from the Kursk region, RBC clarifies.
