Kremlin says it will study Zelenskyy's 'victory plan' if details are released officially
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Sep 22, 2024. (Photo: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS)
MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Monday (Sep 23) it would study what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has billed as his "victory plan" to end the war with Russia as and when official information on it was released.
Zelenskyy is due to present the plan to US President Joe Biden this week and his two potential successors, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, during a trip to the United States which will see Zelenskyy address the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
The plan, details of which Zelenskyy has so far publicly held back, appears to be a big push from Zelenskyy to try to persuade Washington and other allies to provide further and deeper aid to his country in an effort to force Moscow to end the conflict on terms acceptable to Kyiv.
Ukrainian officials have suggested that Russia could eventually be invited to a summit to discuss a resolution to the conflict under the new plan.
Asked about Zelenskyy's initiative, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters:
"We believe that one should not analyse media reports. If information about it appears in official sources we will of course scrutinise it. There is a lot of contradictory and unreliable information on it out there, so we are very cautious about this."
