Biden plans to send another $8BILLION in military aid to Ukraine ahead of 'peace plan' talks with Zelensky

President Joe Biden led a group of much 30 countries successful expressing their support for Ukraine connected Wednesday, arsenic President Volodymyr Zelensky tries to rally nan world to his bid scheme and support his state successful nan spotlight.

The leaders surrounded Biden and Zelensky connected shape for a group photograph astatine nan commencement of nan event, successful a ocular show of support, connected nan sidelines of nan UN General Assembly gathering successful New York.

But location were a fewer hiccups: Biden welcomed nan leaders to Washington (they're successful New York) and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni gave her remarks complete zoom but forgot to unmute herself astatine nan top.

Biden said nan leaders had gathered 'to make it clear that we pinch guidelines pinch Ukraine now and successful nan future. That starts connected nan battlefield.'

He said he would denote much subject commitments connected Thursday erstwhile Zelensky visits nan White House. He plans to springiness much than $8 cardinal worthy of subject assistance for Ukraine, Reuters reported.

But Biden besides based on support for Ukraine didn't extremity pinch weapons. The caller scheme includes helping Kyiv regain financial stability, repair its infrastructure, boost its power sector, and fortify anti-corruption efforts.

'Ukraine's early triumph is astir much than what happens connected nan battlefield,' Biden noted.

'Today we show Ukrainians you are not unsocial successful nan fight. You are not unsocial successful nan reconstruction that comes after,' he said.

Zelensky compared nan support to nan Marshall Plan, which helped Europe rebuild aft World War II, calling nan scheme 'one that will beforehand a serene Ukraine and each of Europe.'

'Thank you each my friends,' he said.

Earlier successful nan day, Zelensky implored nan United Nations to retrieve his war-ravaged state successful a reside earlier nan wide assembly connected Wednesday.

He is successful New York to seduce leaders to his 'victory plan,' which includes enhancing Western information guarantees for Ukraine, expanding subject assistance and securing further financial support.

He hasn't released nan afloat specifications and wasn't expected to up of his gathering pinch President Joe Biden.

U.S. Ambassador to nan U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, has reportedly been briefed connected nan scheme and said it 'can work' but it's unclear how.

Biden, connected Wednesday, will clasp an arena to rally world leaders to what he is calling nan Ukrainian Recovery and Reconstruction.

Ahead of that event, Zelensky, successful his reside to nan General Assembly, tried to make nan rumor individual to nan personnel states, pointing retired Russian troops still occupied 1 of Ukraine's atomic plants. He warned a atomic catastrophe would 'not respect authorities borders.'

'Recently, I received yet different alarming study from our intelligence. Now, Putin does look to beryllium readying attacks connected our atomic powerfulness plants and infrastructure, aiming to disconnect nan plants from nan powerfulness grid,' Zelensky said from nan precocious rostrum of nan main United Nations hall. 'Any rocket aliases drone onslaught aliases immoderate captious incident successful nan power strategy could lead to a atomic disaster. A time for illustration that must ne'er come.'

His remarks came arsenic Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his state should beryllium capable to usage atomic weapons if it was attacked by a authorities that was supported by a atomic power.

'It is projected that aggression against Russia by immoderate nonnuclear state, but pinch nan information aliases support of a atomic authorities beryllium considered arsenic their associated onslaught connected nan Russian Federation,' Putin said successful a gathering astatine nan Kremlin.

The Ukrainian Army continues to suffer crushed to Russian troops successful eastbound Ukraine. Russian forces now inhabit much than 18% of nan territory there.

Zelensky has been pushing for support to occurrence much Western-made weapons into nan bosom of Russia. Western leaders fearfulness Putin will spot that arsenic an onslaught from nan West and grow his war.

He besides has struggled to clasp world attraction arsenic nan warfare successful nan Middle East spreads. Israel has accrued its attacks into Lebanon arsenic it targets members of Hezbollah.Zelensky adjacent heads to Washington wherever he will clasp abstracted meetings astatine nan White House connected Thursday pinch Biden and Kamala Harris.