What to Make of Zelensky’s ‘Plan for Victory’

On Monday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit to Kyiv to discuss Volodymyr Zelensky’s so-called Plan for Victory.

It may have been little noticed in the U.S. in the heat of our presidential election’s final weeks, but the Ukrainian president spent early October meeting with various Western leaders to discuss his proposal before he outlined the five-point plan in a speech to the Ukrainian parliament on October 16. Over the last few weeks, Zelensky has met with British prime minister Keir Starmer and NATO secretary general Mark Rutte at Downing Street as well as French president Emmanuel Macron in Paris, Italian prime minister Georgia Meloni in Rome, and German chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin. (Zelensky had planned to brief Joe Biden in person, but Biden’s early-October trip to Europe was canceled as Hurricane Milton closed in on Florida.)

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On Monday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit to Kyiv to discuss Volodymyr Zelensky’s so-called Plan for Victory.

It may have been little noticed in the U.S. in the heat of our presidential election’s final weeks, but the Ukrainian president spent early October meeting with various Western leaders to discuss his proposal before he outlined the five-point plan in a speech to the Ukrainian parliament on October 16. Over the last few weeks, Zelensky has met with British prime minister Keir Starmer and NATO secretary general Mark Rutte at Downing Street as well as French president Emmanuel Macron in Paris, Italian prime minister Georgia Meloni in Rome, and German chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin. (Zelensky had planned to brief Joe Biden in person, but Biden’s early-October trip to Europe was canceled as Hurricane Milton closed in on Florida.)