After weeks of trumpeting his “Victory Plan” as the pathway to end the war in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy finally unveiled it publicly during a speech earlier this week. However, despite all his charming statements about it, it seems that Western leaders have not been convinced it will work.
Commenting on Zelenskyy’s plan on the sidelines of the NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels on Oct. 18, Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz told the Polish press agency PAP: “Everyone would like the victory plan to be implemented in their hearts…. But there is no great enthusiasm either—as I hear—in the European Council or in NATO headquarters, because the situation on the front is difficult, there is enormous war fatigue,” according to the Kyiv Independent. Kosiniak-Kamysz added that, therefore, the victory plan “is not a clear, bright light that will immediately change reality.”
