Ahead of Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to the U.S., Ukraine tried hard to shape Donald Trump's views on the Russian invasion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a UN Security Council meeting on the conflict between Ukraine and Russia at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on Sept. 24, 2024.any nations keep a nervous eye on U.S. presidential races, but none have as much at stake this time as the people of Ukraine. For them, the outcome could determine how their war against Russia ends, and their leaders have spent months vying for the support of both candidates.
This week, as Zelensky met with world leaders at the United Nations in New York, Trump's rhetoric turned against him, and he began taunting Zelensky at his campaign rallies. The attacks surprised the Ukrainians, because only two months earlier, during a cordial phone call in July, Trump promised Zelensky that he would support Ukraine."So who is the real Trump?" asked a member of the entourage traveling to the U.S. with Zelensky this week."It's still an open question.
In trying to deliver that message to Trump and his supporters, some of Zelensky’s Republican allies have pointed to the resource wealth Ukraine could offer the U.S. after the war. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally, hammered on this point in ain Kyiv earlier this month. “They’re sitting on a trillion dollars of minerals that could be good to our economy,” said the Republican from North Carolina. “So I want to keep helping our friends in Ukraine.
Back in Kyiv, Zelensky’s allies have spent months trying to influence Trump’s views on the war. Leaders of the country’s vibrant community of Baptistsrepeatedly to Trump’s evangelical allies on Capitol Hill, including House Speaker Mike Johnson. Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian billionaire on good terms with the Zelensky administration, hired Trump’s former aide Kellyanne Conway as a lobbyist in Washington for a.
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