Reuben Johnson
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Nov. 20 was scheduled to meet with senior U.S. Army civilian and military officials in Kyiv—the highest-level Army delegation to visit the Ukraine capital since Russia invaded the country in February 2022.
The visit came after the U.S. presented a previously unannounced plan to end the war.
“The good news is that there is an interest from the U.S. side in ending the war,” said a Ukrainian defense industry executive speaking from the far-western region of the country, near the border with Poland.
“The bad news is that this is a plan that calls for substantial concessions on the part of Ukraine, while at the same time Russia gives up almost nothing in return,” he continued. “There are also no concrete guarantees that Russia would not attack Ukraine again—just promises on paper. We have all been here before. It’s that useless piece of paper called the Budapest Memorandum.”
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