The vice president of USA and Democratic candidate, Kamala Harrispromised this Thursday to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskythat will work so that Ukraine “prevails” in the war against Russiaand has highlighted the importance of Washington maintaining its global leadership role and not being seduced by isolationism.
“I will continue to support Ukraine and work to ensure that Ukraine prevail in this warso that the country is safe, secure and prosperous“said the vice president in a statement to the press at the White House, standing next to Zelensky, with two American and two Ukrainian flags in the background.
Harris too has alluded during his statements to his Republican rival for the November 5 elections, the former president donald trump, although he did not mention him by name. “There are some in my country who, if they could, would force Ukraine to give up large parts of its sovereign territory, who would make Ukraine agree to declare itself neutral, and who would force Ukraine to give up its security relationships with other nations,” said Harris, who He added that “these proposals are the same as those of (VladÃmir) Putin.” “Let’s be clear, these are not peace proposals. Instead, swith proposals for surrender, which is dangerous and unacceptable“, he stated with special force.
Harris has also defendedThe importance of the US maintaining its leadership in the world, one of the premises of the American president’s foreign policy, Joe Biden. “History has shown us that if we allow aggressors like Putin to conquer lands with impunity, then they will continue, and Putin could set its sights on Polandthe Baltic states and other allies of the NATO“said Harris, who assured that if the Russian president wins, he and other totalitarian leaders in the world “will be emboldened.”
“History reminds us that The United States cannot and should not isolate itself from the rest of the world. Isolation is not protection. That is why the United States supports Ukraine, not out of charity, but because it is part of our strategic interests,” Harris said.
The ‘Pla de Victoria’
After Harris, Zelensky intervened, who grateful to the vice president for her solidarity that he has shown Ukraine in each of their meetings and asked for their help in strengthening Ukraine’s air defenses to prevent Russia from continuing to attack the country’s cities and infrastructure, such as its electrical grid.
Zelensky has explained that he wants to talk to Harris about what he calls his ‘Victory Plan’, the details of which are unknown, but whose fundamental component would be for Washington to accelerate aid to kyiv before Biden leaves power in January 2025.
The Ukrainian leader He has already spoken this Thursday about that plan with Biden during a meeting in the Oval Office, which occurred just after the White House announced a new military aid package to Ukraine valued at $8 billion, which includes bombs capable of hitting Russian targets 130 kilometers away.
As the Harris campaign recalled in a statement, this is his seventh meeting with Zelensky. The vice president met with the Ukrainian leader five days before Russia began its full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, during the Munich Security Conference in Germany.
Solution in 24 hours
While Harris has promised to maintain the support for Ukraine that the Biden administration has shown, trump He has assured on several occasions that if he returns to the White House would resolve the war between Moscow and kyiv in 24 hoursbut he has not explained how. At an election rally this Wednesday in North Carolina, Trump attacked Zelensky saying that the US continues to give “billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal” to end the war with Russia.
Zelensky had hinted that he was going to meet with Trump this week, but the Trump campaign has said there was no formal agreement for a meeting. According to US media, Trump did not want to meet with Zelensky because he did not like the interview Zelensky gave to The New Yorker magazine, in which the Ukrainian president said that he believed that the former president “really doesn’t know how to stop the war.”
