Zelenskyy’s visit to the U.S. capital will be his first foreign trip since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to invade Ukraine in February.
was first proposed earlier this month
during a December 11 phone call between him and Biden. Zelenskyy accepted the invitation by late last week, and Congress was informed of the decision over the weekend. “The visit will underscore the United States’ steadfast commitment to supporting Ukraine for as long as it takes, including through the provision of economic, humanitarian, and military assistance,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
Russia has struggled to win outright against Ukraine, whose civilians and military have staged and won many conflicts during the war. Meanwhile, efforts to create a peace treaty between Kyiv and Moscow seem to have fizzled out. Noam Chomsky, institute professor emeritus in the department of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, recently stated that the war could drag on without a treaty, and“Suppose that negotiations fail or are not even contemplated. What then? The general expert consensus seems to be that there will be a protracted war, with all of its tragic consequences,”
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