Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will seek more support from allies when he addresses the UN and meets Donald Trump this week, but behind the scenes, Kyiv is quietly preparing for a new phase of the war in which it relies more on itself.

Kyiv’s hopes of winning tough new US sanctions on Russia are fading, and a new pragmatism in Ukraine makes Zelensky’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 US intelligence sharing and weapons supplies authorised by the US president’s predecessor. 4

Yet intense lobbying has failed to persuade Trump to impose sanctions t

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