When President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine set off for the United States this week on a high-stakes diplomatic mission, he had one goal above all others: rekindle a sense of urgency among his allies about Kyiv¡¯s fortunes as the war with Russia heads into what promises to be another brutal winter.
But after wrapping up a whirlwind week capped by a meeting with former President Donald Trump on Friday in New York, Zelenskyy was set to return to Kyiv with ¡°more questions than answers about the near future¡± for the Ukrainian war effort, said Mikhail Minakov, head of the Ukraine research program at the Kennan Institute in Washington.
The only thing that seemed clear was that Ukraine¡¯s prospects for repelling Russian aggression were now firmly swept up in the maelstrom of the American presidential campaign.
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