(Reuters) -Ukraine’s prime minister said on Tuesday she was focusing on Russian attacks on her country’s energy grid in talks in Washington ahead of a visit later this week by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
“At every meeting in Washington we raise the topic of defending Ukrainian energy and supporting our resilience over the winter and ways to defend it,” Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
She described the priorities of her visit as “energy, sanctions and the development of cooperation with the USA in new ways that can strengthen both our countries”.
Zelenskiy meets U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday to discuss Ukraine’s air defence and long-range strike capabilities. The leaders spoke twice last weekend amid intensifying discussions about the poten