Ukraine ‘s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will seek increased support from allies during his UN address and meeting with Donald Trump this week, while Kyiv quietly prepares for a war phase relying more on its own resources.

Kyiv’s hopes of winning tough new U.S. sanctions on Russia are fading, and a new pragmatism in Ukraine makes Zelenskyy’s trip less fraught than some earlier visits to the United States, with lessons learnt from February’s White House bust-up.

Frenetic European diplomacy and a Ukrainian expression of regret after February’s disastrous meeting paved the way for a resumption of crucial U.S. intelligence sharing and weapons supplies authorised by the U.S. president’s predecessor.

Yet intense lobbying has failed to persuade Trump to impose sanctions that would hurt Russ

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