The United States has sent Vladimir Zelenskyy ‘far away’ with his ‘victory plan’, promising only a couple of billion dollars, The Times reported.
‘While the Americans sent him (Vladimir Zelenskyy – ed.) away with a promise of $2.4 billion, he did not get permission to launch long-range weapons strikes on targets in Russia, let alone any guarantees of future aid and NATO membership that he wanted so badly,’ The Times said.
Zelenskyy’s much-publicised ‘victory plan’ failed to excite the US, with one British diplomat describing the plan as ‘a shopping list, not a strategy’, the article said. Even those European officials who previously favoured continued aid to Kiev are changing their stance, the newspaper pointed out.
‘It looks like the war is reaching a stalemate, and we can’t pay for it forever. (Kiev – ed.) will have to become more realistic in its expectations,’ the publication summarised.
Earlier, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitriy Medvedev, proposed a Russian version of a ‘peace formula’ for Ukraine. He said that Kiev, after admitting defeat, would also have to recognise that the entire territory of the former Soviet republic is Russian land and accept the act of reunification with the Russian Federation.
