2024-09-25
26 分钟President Zelensky’s in the US for a diplomatic mission to try and sell President Biden his ‘victory plan’. But what’s in it? And can he persuade the Americans to back it? Two friends of the pod, defence expert Matthew Savill and Russia expert Angela Stent, join Lyse to assess how it might go down with the President, and the two candidates hoping to succeed him, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Today’s episode is presented by Lyse Doucet. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Cordelia Hemming and Julie Ball. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Richard Fenton-Smith. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480 You can join the Ukrainecast discussion on Newscast’s Discord server here: tinyurl.com/ukrainecastdiscord
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It's 944 days since Russia began its full scale invasion of Ukraine.
And this week, President Zelensky is in the United States for a marathon diplomatic mission.
Mr.
President, hi, how are you?
Again, the timing is critical.
President Biden only has months to go in the Oval Office.
And President Zelensky, with his sense of timing, wants to ensure victory for Ukraine is on the top of his agenda when he comes to think of his legacy.
So in a very, perhaps we can say a very President Zelensky way, he started his time in the United States in President Biden's hometown, Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he visited a weapons factory.
To come here and to thank you, 400 people saved millions of Ukrainians.
Because right now, the Ukrainian President is in New York for the United Nations General assembly, the top table of world leaders.
President Biden has delivered his farewell address.
We cannot grow weary.
We cannot look away.
And we will not let up on.
Our support for Ukraine, not until Ukraine.
Wins a just and durable peace in the UN Charter.
So President Zelensky will rub shoulders with world leaders from the world over before he heads off to Washington, where he'll sit down with Joe Biden and with the two candidates vying to be his successor.
And to all of them, he wants to pitch what he calls his victory plan.
It's a breach to diplomatic way how to stop the war.