The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has invited the former President of the United States, Donald Trump to visit his country to improve his perspective of the ongoing war in the country.
Zelenskyy explained that he would like to hear Trump’s proposals for ending the war between Russia and Ukraine after the visit.
He spoke on Wednesday during an interview with Axel Springer which was monitored by Africa Today News, New York.
The Ukrainian president, however, said he is not interested in Trump’s idea that the war would be over if only Ukraine would forfeit large amounts of land.
According to Zelenskyy: “If the deal is that we just give up our territories … then, it’s a very primitive idea.
“I need a real idea because people’s lives are at stake.”
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The U.S. military said Tuesday it has handed Ukraine an array of small arms and ammunition it seized from Iranian forces as they tried to deliver them to Tehran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The cache included more than 5,000 AK-47 assault weapons, rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, sniper rifles and more than 500,000 rounds of ammunition that the U.S. seized from four vessels between May 2021 and February 2023, the U.S. Central Command said.
“These weapons will help Ukraine defend against Russia’s invasion” and are enough material to equip a brigade, the U.S. said.
Recall that Zelenskyy had last week declared that Kyiv will lose the war against Russia if the US Congress does not approve military aid to battle Moscow’s invasion.
Republicans in Congress have been withholding tens of billions of dollars in military aid for Kyiv for months.
“It is necessary to specifically tell Congress that if Congress does not help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war,” Zelensky said during a video meeting of the Kyiv-organized fundraising platform United24.
Zelenskyy said it would be “difficult” for Ukraine to “stay” (survive) without the aid.