OR Ukraine will present its “victory” plan to its allies in Germany next weekend, the president said yesterday Volodymyr Zelensky.

“We will present the winning plan, clearly, concrete steps for a just end to the war,” Zelensky wrote in a Telegram post.

Zelensky will meet the American president Joe Biden and other leaders at a regular meeting of Kiev’s key allies at Ramstein US airbase on October 12.

Ukraine, which has been fighting a Russian invasion for nearly 1,000 days, suffered a major battlefield setback this week when Russian forces captured the eastern city of Buhledar after two years of resistance.

Zelensky, in a video message delivered overnight, said his government, military and diplomatic officials would do “everything” they can in the coming days to ensure the Ramstein meeting is “positive for defense us, for our vision of how the war should end.”

The Ukrainian president presented the plan to Biden and the two US presidential candidates, Vice President Kamala Harris and the former president Donald Trumplast week after months of Kiev working out ideas to end the war.

The White House said Zelensky’s plan includes “a number of productive steps.” However, a US official called it a rephrased request for more weapons and the lifting of restrictions on the use of long-range missiles. The plan foresees Russia’s eventual defeat in the war, the official said. An idea that some officials consider unrealistic.

The Financial Times newspaper, citing unnamed diplomats, said yesterday that Ukraine’s land concession to Russia in order to secure its membership in NATO may be the only option. However, a source from Zelensky’s office told Ukrainian media that Kiev “does not exchange sovereignty and territories” and called the report “mere talk”.