Ukraine’s 4-month countdown

EU Confidential

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Volodymyr Zelensky has just four months. That’s the time left until U.S. President Joe Biden leaves office. After that, who knows what’s going to happen. And that means uncomfortable questions for the EU, too. This week’s edition of EU Confidential tracks the Ukrainian president’s recent journey to the U.S. We start off in Kyiv, where POLITICO’s Veronika Melkozerova recounts meeting Zelensky as he gave reporters a sneak peek of his “Victory Plan.” (Security is tight — even lipstick needs a close check.) Then we unpack his lobbying mission to the White House and the U.N. General Assembly. Jan Cienski, POLITICO senior policy editor; Dave Brown, defense editor at POLITICO US; and Olga Oliker, program director for Europe and Central Asia at International Crisis Group join host Sarah Wheaton to discuss the political and strategic debates playing out in the U.S. and the EU. We also listen in on Suzanne Lynch’s interview with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. For more, subscribe to POLITICO’s Global Playbook newsletter. Next, we continue our Berylamont Who’s Who series with mini-profiles of commissioners-designate Raffaele Fitto (Meloni’s man in Brussels) and current EVP Maroš Šefčovič (the EU’s Mr. Fix-it). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.4	Russia has been doing things that cannot possibly be justified under the UN Charter.
0:38.2	The fighting in Ukraine has been going on for almost a thousand days.
0:45.1	Volodymyr Zelensky is trying to seal the country's victory in just four months.
0:50.8	That's the time remaining until U.S. President Joe Biden leaves office.
0:55.5	Zelensky traveled to the U.S. this week to present what he's pitching as a victory plan,
0:59.7	not just to Washington, but also at the United Nations in New York.
1:04.5	Russia can only be forced.
1:06.6	And yeah, the main player that he needs to get to buy into his big ideas, namely striking deep into Russian territory with Western missiles
1:13.9	and speeding up the invitation to join NATO is the United States.
1:18.2	And I'm asking for your support.
1:20.3	But Europe is also divided on these questions.
1:22.7	Support to Ukraine by EU member states.
1:25.4	I opened the vote.
1:26.6	Last week, the European Parliament adopted a resolution with a two-thirds majority.
1:30.6	I close the vote.
1:31.6	Calling for restrictions on strikes in Russia to be lifted immediately.
1:35.4	And it is adopted.
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