The Strategy of Zelenskyy's: Ukraine's Challenges Amid Russian Advances and Western Uncertainty

The Russian forces currently occupy less than 20% of Ukraine, in the east and south, and are gradually advancing into Ukraine, the Kyiv government has expressed full concern. Kyiv has been lobbying Western powers to allow it to launch long-range strikes against military targets inside Russia. Moscow's forces are steadily increasing in eastern Ukraine while Ukrainian forces control a small part of Russian territory on the border, two months after they invaded the Kursk region. Zelenskyy did not specify how and why he saw this opportunity. President Zelenskyy is struggling to get Western support. His comments come amid heightened fears in Kyiv ahead of the November 5 US election, which could see Donald Trump return to the White House. Trump has said he will seek a quick solution to end the war, which Kyiv supporters have expressed concern will lead to destructive concessions in Ukraine. Zelenskyy also called on top politicians from 12 Southeast European countries at the conference to invest in Ukraine's arms production, which Kyiv had boosted during the war. President Zelenskyy said he is developing his victory plan, which is how to put Ukraine on a solid ground for possible negotiations with Russia. The first point of the plan focuses on whether Ukraine has a place in NATO? If so, and this is confirmed correctly, Russian President Vladimir Putin will lose geopolitically. he said.