Kremlin Says It Will Study Zelenskiy’s ‘Victory Plan’ if Details Are Released Officially 

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visits the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, US, September 22, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters)
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visits the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, US, September 22, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters)
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Kremlin Says It Will Study Zelenskiy’s ‘Victory Plan’ if Details Are Released Officially 

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visits the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, US, September 22, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters)
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visits the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, US, September 22, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters)

The Kremlin said on Monday it would study what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has billed as his "victory plan" to end the war with Russia as and when official information on it was released.

Zelenskiy is due to present the plan to US President Joe Biden this week and his two potential successors, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, during a trip to the United States which will see Zelenskiy address the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

The plan, details of which Zelenskiy has so far publicly held back, appears to be a big push from Zelenskiy to try to persuade Washington and other allies to provide further and deeper aid to his country in an effort to force Moscow to end the conflict on terms acceptable to Kyiv.

Ukrainian officials have suggested that Russia could eventually be invited to a summit to discuss a resolution to the conflict under the new plan.

Asked about Zelenskiy's initiative, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters:

"We believe that one should not analyze media reports. If information about it appears in official sources we will of course scrutinize it. There is a lot of contradictory and unreliable information on it out there, so we are very cautious about this."



Romania Scrambles Fighter Jets Second Time This Week over Breach of Airspace

Two Romanian military jet pilots fly their F16 Falcons during a demo flight following the opening ceremony for the European F-16 Training Center, held at the 86th Air Base "Lieutenant Aviator Gheorghe Mociornita", in Borcea, Romania, 13 November 2023. (EPA)
Two Romanian military jet pilots fly their F16 Falcons during a demo flight following the opening ceremony for the European F-16 Training Center, held at the 86th Air Base "Lieutenant Aviator Gheorghe Mociornita", in Borcea, Romania, 13 November 2023. (EPA)
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Romania Scrambles Fighter Jets Second Time This Week over Breach of Airspace

Two Romanian military jet pilots fly their F16 Falcons during a demo flight following the opening ceremony for the European F-16 Training Center, held at the 86th Air Base "Lieutenant Aviator Gheorghe Mociornita", in Borcea, Romania, 13 November 2023. (EPA)
Two Romanian military jet pilots fly their F16 Falcons during a demo flight following the opening ceremony for the European F-16 Training Center, held at the 86th Air Base "Lieutenant Aviator Gheorghe Mociornita", in Borcea, Romania, 13 November 2023. (EPA)

Romania raised fighter jets early on Saturday for the second time this week after an unidentified object breached its airspace by the Black Sea, the Ministry of Defense said.

The small object was detected over the Black Sea moving toward Romania, a European Union and NATO member, at around 2:30 a.m, the ministry said in a statement.

Romania shares a 650-kilometer (400-mile) border with Ukraine and has previously complained over Russian drones entering its airspace as Moscow attacks Ukrainian targets along the Black Sea and Danube River. Fragments of Russian drones have also been repeatedly found on Romanian territory near the Ukrainian border.

Two F-18 jets of the Spanish Air Force and two F-16s of the Romanian Air Force were dispatched but did not spot the target, which disappeared from the radar, the ministry said.

Two Spanish F-18s and two Romanian F-16s also were dispatched on Thursday in a similar incident.