Ukraine’s Victory Plan to Drive NATO Closer to Direct Clash With Russia: Zakharova
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Oct. 2024. X/ @TrumpGirlOnFire
October 17, 2024 Hour: 10:31 am
President Zelensky’s Plan is ‘more than terrifying,’ Hungarian PM Orban pointed out.
On Thursday, Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova warned that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s “Victory Plan” could push the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) toward a direct conflict with Russia.
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Zakharova said Zelensky insisted on obtaining permission to use long-range weapons on Russian territory, “perfectly understanding” the consequences that Russian leadership has warned against.
Earlier on Wednesday, Zelensky presented his “Victory Plan” to the Ukrainian parliament earlier on Wednesday, where he outlined Ukraine’s strategy in the ongoing conflict with Russia.
The five-point plan covers geopolitical, military, economic, and security goals, calls for Ukraine’s NATO membership in the near future, and includes a proposal to lift current restrictions hindering Ukraine from using long-range Western weapons on targets inside Russia
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the new proposal is likely just the same U.S. plan to fight until the last Ukrainian, which Zelensky has now disguised as a “peace plan.”
On Thursday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called Ukraine’s Victory Plan “more than terrifying.”
“We don’t know it officially yet. What Zelensky said yesterday in the Ukrainian parliament is more than terrifying,” the Hungarian leader said ahead of a summit of European Union leaders in Brussels.
Ukraine should change “its war strategy to a peace strategy,” he added, calling on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron to start talks with Russia to “find a way out of this situation.”
Meanwhile, at the EU summit, Zelensky called for unity among European partners around his plan in order to convince “other leaders” to also support his requests, such as authorizing the Ukrainian army to attack Russian territory with long-range weapons.
Orban stressed today that the European Union is pursuing a “bellicose” and “erroneous” strategy in the Ukrainian war and warned that Europe “is losing.”
The EU has entered the war with a poorly planned and poorly executed strategy, the Hungarian leader said, stressing that the main person responsible for the current situation is the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, since “she was the one who raised the flag” of the European strategy.
teleSUR/ JF Sources: EFE – Xinhua
