The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in the United States. CBS reports it explaining that he landed at Joint Base Andrews.
The United States has guaranteed the security of the Ukrainian president’s journey to Washington and will also do so for his return, said White House Security Council spokesman John Kirby meanwhile. “We are working hand-in-hand with Zelensky’s staff to ensure he can make this trip safely, both on his way to and from the United States,” Kirby said, adding, “We will continue to support his travel needs.” For obvious reasons, I won’t go into too much detail about the security measures that were taken to bring the Ukrainian president here,” he added, speaking on CNN.
US President Joe Biden will talk to his Ukrainian counterpart about the need to arrive at ”a just peace” in Ukraine, Kirby explained during the interview. President Biden, he said again, believed that ”the right time” had arrived to sit down at the table with the Ukrainian leader, given ”the approach of winter” and assessing that ”the war has entered into a new phase”.
“It is a good opportunity for the two leaders to come face to face and to talk not only about what the United States is doing now and will continue to do in the future,” added Kirby. As far as the Russian president is concerned, ”Putin is obviously not interested in diplomacy at the moment”, underlined Kirby. At the moment, therefore, according to the United States there is no possibility of ending the conflict through diplomatic channels .