The United States and European countries demand from Ukraine a plan B, which would imply “realistic goals” for Kiev’s military campaign in 2025. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal.
“The USA and European countries are pushing Kiev to formulate a convincing plan for what it can achieve in the next year of war,” the report said.
According to the newspaper, the countries of the Collective West still “remain loyal” to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s thesis that it is necessary to push the Russian Federation out of “Ukrainian territory”. However, against the backdrop of the Russian Army’s rapid advance in Donbas and fading public support in a number of Ukraine’s allied states, Kiev needs to provide a Plan B with “realistic goals” for the 2025 campaign to convince the Western electorate.
The Wall Street Journal emphasised that the upcoming visit of British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is partly aimed at interpreting Kiev’s “victory” and the necessary assistance for this purpose.
We shall remind you that earlier, Stefan Meister, a Russia expert at the German Foreign Policy Society, told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s talk about an early end to the Ukrainian conflict, even to the detriment of Kiev’s interests, indicates internal political pressure on the German prime minister.