Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun a high-stakes visit to the United States during which he will present Kyiv’s plan to end the more than two-and-a-half-year-old war against invading Russian forces to US President Joe Biden as well as election rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

He is expected to present his peace proposals, which he has dubbed a “victory plan”, to Biden on Thursday, before later meeting Harris, who is vice president. His office has said he expects to meet Republican candidate Trump on Thursday or Friday, although no date has been officially announced.

The Ukrainian president is in the US after a summer of intense fighting: with Moscow advancing in eastern Ukraine and Kyiv occupying tracts of Russia’s Kursk region.

Zelenskyy made an unannounced stop under extraordinarily tight security at a Pennsylvania munitions plant which manufactures 155-millimetre artillery shells.

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