Zelenskiy to Push Biden on NATO Invite, Visit US Arms Factory

  • Ukraine president will visit munitions factory ahead of UNGA
  • Proposal includes advanced weapons, economic and security

Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Joe Biden in Washington, DC, last year.

Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy will push US President Joe Biden to provide an official invitation to join NATO and commit to a sustained supply of advanced weapons as part of the Ukrainian president’s “victory plan” to bring the war with Russia to an end.

Zelenskiy’s expected to present the plan, which also requests a clear pathway to European Union membership as well as other economic and security arrangements, to Biden when they meet in Washington on Sept. 26, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified as the information is private.