Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will come to Washington today with one of his biggest requests of the U.S. since Russia invaded his country nearly 300 days ago — and he might not get the answer he wants.
That conversation is expected to dominate the in-person meeting between Zelenskyy, his team and the Biden administration. Zelenskyy is also likely to make the case to Congress that his country is in need of more advanced weapons to fend off Russian bombardment.
But U.S. officials aren’t ready to budge. The Biden White House has flatly rejected sending the ATACMS. The costs of doing so are high, U.S. officials say. Sending long-range missiles to Kyiv could risk provoking Putin using potentially even more lethal weapons inside Ukraine. On Wednesday, Biden plans to announce that it is giving Ukraine more of the other weapons it has asked for, even as it stands firm against supplying longer-range resources.
Biden administration officials agree that Ukraine is at a precarious moment. The situation on the ground is likely to grow more dire this winter, with Russia launching more missiles at Ukraine’s military and critical infrastructure, a senior U.S. official said, pushing more civilians to flee to other regions of Ukraine and to nearby countries.
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