Zelensky asks Washington Tomahawk long -range missiles, what is the reason - nyt
In addition, Zelensky's voyage can be the preparation of Ukrainians for an agreement with Russia. About it writes The New York Times. Analysts in the West consider the lobbying trip to Vladimir Zelensky to the United States and Europe in the last six weeks. Since Ukraine has not received permission to launch long range missiles in depths. And no large state has publicly approved Ukraine's invitation to NATO while the war is raging.
But a real audience can be at home for this plan, some military analysts and diplomats say. Zelensky can use his tough advertising-including a recent appeal to Parliament-to show Ukrainians that he had done everything he could, and prepare them for the possibility that Ukraine will have to conclude an agreement and give Ukrainians a convenient goat-gave: West.
Given the weakening of the event, the losses on the Eastern Front and the Kursk region of Russia, as well as elections to the US, which are approaching and may mean a radically different policy on Ukraine, the President of Ukraine may not remain other options. Volodymyr Zelensky is doing his best to force the United States and other allies to commit himself to the fact that, according to Ukraine, she needs to be able to negotiate from the point of view of force.
The Ukrainian president uses the arrival of the North Korean troops to participate in the battles with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Kursk to try to create some impetus for his plan. In an interview with journalists last week, Zelensky stated that he did not have an obvious plan if the event did not support his plan. "I do not insist that they do this. He repeated that, as before, against the concessions of the territories.
But he also talked about diplomatic steps to address issues such as protecting energy infrastructure and creating a safe navigable corridor from Ukraine on the Black Sea. And he hinted at one approach that can allow Ukraine to keep his face if it does not return all the lands captured by Russia. "No one recognizes legally occupied territories as owned by other states," he said.
US officials have privately expressed some annoyance by the Zelensky Victory Plan, calling it unrealistic and almost completely dependent on Western assistance. They spoke on anonymity to discuss confidential military information. An illustrative example: at some point Zelensky offered a "non -nuclear determination package" in which Ukraine will receive Tomahawk missiles. This request was called "absolutely impossible" in the United States.
"Tomahawk" has a range of more than 2400 km, which is seven times more than the range of ATACMS long -range missile missile systems this year. And the United States sent only a limited number of such systems, said high -ranking US officials. Ukraine also did not provide Washington's convincing arguments on how it would use long -range weapons, US officials said.
The list of goals within Russia is much exceeding the number of missiles that the US or any other ally could put without the risk of missiles designed for potential problems in the Middle East and Asia, they added. Four American officials recently reported The New York Times that Zelensky was stunned by the fact that President Biden did not allow him to use American ladage missiles to strike in the deep territory of Russia when they met in Washington in September.
In the past, Biden was usually inferior after the initial rejection of Ukraine's requests for the supply of weapons such as Abrams tanks, F-16 and ATACMS fighters. While Zelensky continues to promote his plan, the war causes great harm to both parties. Russia is moving forward in the east. The Armed Forces require more weapons, shells and resources.
However, Russia is undergoing enormous losses in its gloomy march forward; According to American officials, in September she lost more soldiers killed and wounded than in any other month of the war; US and UK military analysts estimate the number of victims of more than 1,200 people a day. It is widespread that neither party is ready for official negotiations. Ukrainian and Western officials consider Russia's proposals to discuss peace as a requirement of surrender.
Zelensky appealed to the United Nations with a request to support Ukraine and prevent the freezing of war with Russia. The threat of a large -scale conflict in the Middle East has distinguished its attention from Ukraine. The fatigue from the war in Ukraine is real, "and becomes more obvious," the Finnish Foreign Minister of Finnish Foreign Affairs recently said.
The President of the Czech Republic has declared last month that Ukraine should recognize the reality that it would have to be temporarily yielding to Russia. Many diplomats and analysts say that the most likely result of the war in the near future will be an agreement that will temporarily freeze both sides along a not yet defined line.
"We are increasingly hearing in Washington and Europe that it is unreasonable to rely on the return of 100 percent of their territory, and Ukrainians are beginning to be aware of it," said Kamil Grand, former NATO Secretary General and the European Council Defense Expert, which He recently visited Ukraine. "There is a world in which they allow Russian occupation for a while.
But it requires demilitarization of the front line, and then Ukrainians will want to get super -guarantees of security in order to avoid the restoration of war by Russia in five years," he said. Analysts say that the US elections, which will take place in just a few days, will largely determine the future of the war. Former President Donald J. Trump, a Republican Party Candidate, and his partner Jay Di Wands made it clear that they would be skeptical of continued Ukrainian support of Ukraine.
Vice president Kamala Harris, a candidate from the Democratic Party, said she would continue Ukraine's support, as Biden did. But many experts say she can see what help the United States is ready to provide. And then there is the main goal of Zelensky - to get an invitation to NATO during the war.
Although some NATO allies, such as the Baltic States and Poland, seem to be open to this idea, and NATO has repeatedly promised that Ukraine would eventually join the Alliance, the United States and Germany oppose Ukraine's invitation during the war because NATO may be concerned involved in conflict with nuclear Russia. Ukrainians hope that Biden will do something to strengthen their inheritance in Ukraine - for example, will approve the use of a long range or a faster path to NATO.
Among the Ukrainians, the accusations of the West - rare in the first year of the war - are gaining momentum after delays in military assistance and the feeling that the Allies of Ukraine are giving Ukraine just so many weapons that it does not lose. According to the Koliv Institute of World Economy in Germany, Europe and the United States have already spent about $ 220 billion to help and military equipment for Ukraine.
We will remind, in Ukraine there are problems with the system of management of troops and this should be changed so that there are no tragic consequences in the future. This opinion was expressed by the People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada and Secretary of the Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Roman Kostenko.