Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky got to work in the United States on Monday on lobbying the current and potential future leadership to sign up to his vision of how his country can win its war with Russia.

The Ukrainian president will present a plan to the U.S. this week he hope will end the war started by Vladimir Putin.

As President Volodymyr Zelensky kicked off a visit to the U.S. this week in a bid to secure more firepower for his army, Ukrainian soldiers on the ground monitored the news with half-hearted hope, questioning whether Kyiv’s top Western ally would provide enough to help them defeat Russia.