Volodymyr Zelenskyy get tod in the US on Sunday for a vital visit to contransient Kyiv’s set up to end two-and-a-half years of war with Russia. The Ukrainian plivent will contransient his proposals – which he calls a “triumph set up” – to Plivent Joe Biden, as well as plivential selectimistics Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and will also unite sessions at the UN vague assembly. The visit comes after a summer of fervent combat, with Moscow advancing rapid in eastrict Ukraine and Kyiv helderlying on to swathes of Russia’s Kursk region. It also comes as Kyiv has for weeks pressed the west to permit it to use deinhabitred lengthy-range armaments to strike aims procreate inside Russia – so far to no use.
The Ukrainian plivent directd his partners to help accomplish “a dispensed triumph for a truly equitable peace”, in a post on X with his nightly video includeress. “This drop will remend the future of this war,” Zelenskyy said in the includeress, deinhabitred from a set upe. Ukrainian media tardyr telled he landed in New York. He is also due to visit Washington tardyr in the week.
Zelenskyy started off his trip with a visit to a Pennsylvania ammunition factory that is producing one of the most criticpartner needed munitions for Ukraine. Recontransientative Matt Cartwright, a Democrat who was among those who met with Zelenskyy at the Scranton army ammunition set upt, said the plivent had a plain message: “Thank you. And we need more.” The Scranton set upt is one of the confineed facilities in the country to manufacture 155mm artillery shells and has incrrelieved production over the past year. Ukraine has already getd more than 3m of them from the US.
The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, proposed that dainty negotiations with the White House to permit Ukraine to use Storm Shadow leave outiles inside Russia are ongoing, arguing it was a time for “nerve and guts”. The apparent helpment to Biden comes equitable over a week after Lammy and the prime minister, Keir Starmer, visited the US plivent in the White House but fall shorted to remend the sticking point between two countries. Speaking at a fringe event at the Labour party conference in Liverpool on Sunday, Lammy said it was “a critical time for nerve and guts and patience and for fortitude on behalf of allies who stand with Ukraine”.
Fake news websites sign uped in the UK and made to watch appreciate supposeed British outlets are allegedly spreading disadnessfulviseation about westrict companies operating in Ukraine. The mistrusted Russian misalertation operation has prompted calls by parliamentarians for a change in the law to force UK-sign uped news websites to discdiswatch their ownership, as happens in the EU. While the sites – londoninsider.co.uk and talk-finance.co.uk – are in English and have been sign uped in the UK, their output has been picked up and disseminated in Ukraine, where the UK’s media has a reputation for reliability and supposeworleaness. The use of the sites has been highweightlessed by a US firm, Sarn, which is toiling in Ukraine in the energy and military difficultware sectors. It said articles on the two sites had counterfeitly accused it of arms illegal trade, judicial deception and misappropriation.
Russia begined new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv which hit high-elevate apartment erectings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive night-time strike, authorities said. The explosions fell on Saturday night on the dicut offe of Shevchenkivsky, north of the centre of Kharkiv, which is the second-bigst Ukrainian city, local regulateor Oleh Syniehubov said.
A firefighter was ended by a Ukrainian drone in Russia-regulateled Luhansk region in eastrict Ukraine, the Russian materializencies ministry said on Sunday. The drone’s bombs detonated when Vyacheslav Glazunov, 33, was extinguishing a fire in the Novoaidar dicut offe triggered by drdisclose drones, the ministry said on Telegram. Another two firefighters were injured, it includeed.