Zelensky dismisses fears over 2024 US presidential election, saying Ukraine will “win by then”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is not worried about the outcome of the 2024 US presidential election and what it could mean in terms of Washington’s support for Kyiv, because he believes Ukraine will win before then.
“Who knows where we'll be [when the election happens]?” he told European public broadcasters in an interview published on Thursday, according to one of the outlets, the BBC. “I believe we'll win by then.”
Zelensky added that Ukraine continues to enjoy bipartisan support in the US Congress.
Some context: The US has provided significant financial support for Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion. On Tuesday, the US announced a $1.2 billion aid package to Ukraine to support the long-anticipated launch of its counteroffensive against Russian forces. With the new package announcement, the US has committed $36.9 billion in military aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the war in February 2022.
Zelensky’s comments came after former President Donald Trump would not say Wednesday night who he thinks should prevail in the war, instead telling New Hampshire GOP primary voters that he wants “everybody to stop dying” and that he doesn’t “think in terms of winning and losing.”
Speaking at CNN’s town hall, Trump – asked whether he supports providing US military aid to Ukraine – would not commit to sending aid to the war-torn country, should he win the Republican presidential nomination and then the White House.
While Trump said he would meet with Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin and solve the war in Ukraine “in one day, 24 hours,” he would not say whether he believed Putin was a war criminal but that it “should be discussed later.”
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