Zelensky wants to end conflict with Russia in autumn 2024

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for ending the conflict with Russia this autumn.

Photo: president.gov.ua by PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY Official website, CC BY 4.0

The end of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in the autumn of 2024 will help restore a "reliable international security order," the Ukrainian president said. Zelensky called on Western partners to jointly contribute to the completion of the conflict.

On September 6, Friday, Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Germany to participate in a meeting with Western colleagues at the US Ramstein Air Base.

Zelensky calls to ignore Putin's red lines

During the meeting, Zelensky called on Kiev's allies to ignore Russia's red lines and let Kiev use long-range weapons to strike Russian territory.

"We need to have these long-range weapons not only on (…) Ukrainian territory, but also on Russian territory," he said during a meeting of the Contact Group on Ukrainian Defense.

Notably, this is the first time when Zelensky personally participated in a meeting of defense ministers at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

Zelensky arrived in Germany on Friday, September 6. He said that he would meet with US and German defense ministers Lloyd Austin and Boris Pistorius. He will also hold separate talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

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Ramstein Air Base (IATA: RMS, ICAO: ETAR) is a United States Air Force base located in Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in southwestern Germany. It serves as the headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) and NATO Allied Air Command (AIRCOM). Ramstein is near the town of Ramstein-Miesenbach, which is situated outside the base's west gate, in the rural district of Kaiserslautern. The base supports forward elements deploying to Eastern Europe and Africa.

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who is serving as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019, including during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine ongoing since 2022. Born to a Ukrainian Jewish family, Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. He obtained a degree in law from the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics. He then pursued a comedy career and created the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows including the TV series Servant of the People, in which Zelenskyy played a fictional Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely popular. A political party with the same name as the TV show was created in March 2018 by employees of Kvartal 95.