President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has once again invited US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to Kyiv to get acquainted with the real state of affairs in Ukraine.
"If Trump wants to come, I'm even ready to go with him to the front line," Zelensky said on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, DW reports.
"Decision-makers need to know what the war is like in reality, not on Instagram," the Ukrainian president explained. At the same time, he thanked the United States for its military assistance and said that he was going to meet with American congressmen on the sidelines of the Munich conference.
Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that if he wins the US presidential election, he will end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. Trump has not specified how he intends to do this, but sources in his inner circle have said that if he wins, Trump intends to put pressure on both Ukraine and Russia to force them to the negotiating table – he threatens Ukraine with a cut in military aid, and Russia, on the contrary, with an increase in aid to Ukraine.
Republicans in the US Congress have long been blocking the allocation of a new $60bn military aid package to Ukraine. After weeks of negotiations, the Democratic-majority Senate finally approved the package, but the Republican-dominated House of Representatives may block it.
The United States is the largest provider of military aid to Ukraine. Germany is in second place.
Background. At the Munich conference, Scholz avoided answering the question about the supply of Taurus missiles to Ukraine.