“If the partners agree, we envisage replacing certain military contingents of the U.S. armed forces stationed in Europe with Ukrainian units. After the war,” Zelenskyy said. “Ukrainians have proven that they can be a force that Russian evil cannot overcome.”
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Some of the Ukrainian MPs listening to the speech felt it was very ambitious.
“The plan looks like others need to do everything for us,” European Solidarity opposition party MP Oleksiy Honcharenko said in a Facebook post.
But Roman Losynskyi, a Ukrainian soldier and a member of the liberal Holos party, saw things to like.
“On one hand, the plan sounds like a fantasy. On the other hand, Patriot, Storm Shadow, and F-16s used to be just as fantastic, as was the sinking of a large part of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation and the control of a piece of Kursk. Everything depends on the decisions of partners and the success of our diplomacy,” Lozynskyi said.
However, he added that Zelenskyy “did not explain how he plans to achieve the implementation of these points.”