Postponement of Western Leaders’ Summit on Ukraine.

Western nations have held meetings at the base on military support for Ukraine ever since the war with Russia. Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wanted to propose a “Victory Plan” to these countries’ leaders.

The meeting was supposed to take place on Saturday where approximately 20 world leaders would participate. The meeting was supposed to happen at US Ramstein airbase in Germany and was later postponed after Biden said he had to stay back to respond to Hurricane Milton’s landfall in Florida. The  Ramstein summit was a four day trip by Biden to Germany, where Ukraine’s President was going to ask for more air defence systems to defend themselves from Moscow’s aggression and request to use long range missiles inside Russia.

It was an opportunity for Ukraine to present proposals to negotiate with Russia as Russia is continuing to invade the eastern Ukraine. There had also been opinions that the meeting would discuss the steps on how to make Ukraine a member of Nato.

Zelenskyy said the plan is about strengthening Ukraine both geographically and on the battlefield against Russia. He said, “Weakness of any of our allies will inspire Putin. That’s why we’re asking them to strengthen us, in terms of security guarantees, in terms of weapons, in terms of our future after this war. In my view. he(Putin) only understands force.”

The leaders who were supposed to attend the summit include Keir Starmer, the UK Prime Minister, Emmanuel Macron, the French President. Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda withdrew from the summit on Wednesday before the announcement of postponement.

The sources revealed that Zelenskyy would meet the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Friday. He is expected to go and visit other European leaders and would call it a “European Tour.”

The German Officials promised another meeting to discuss Ukraine will be held soon. Though it is suspected to happen not anytime soon before the US presidential elections which are supposed to be held in November.

Steffen Hebestreit, a spokesperson for the German government said: “It is true that the national security advisers are in close contact with each other and are also coordinating closely on the issue of Ukraine. There should be a face-to-face meeting soon and an exchange of views.”