Ukraine and its Western backers are planning to hold an international summit to increase support for Kyiv’s terms for a settlement to the conflict with Russia, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
While being sold as a peace summit, the plan does not involve inviting Russians. Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, reiterated Kyiv’s position that it won’t hold talks with Moscow unless Russia withdraws from all the territory it has captured, a position that is a non-starter for negotiations.
European officials told the Journal that they want to work with Kyiv to recraft its 10-point peace plan to make it more appealing to neutral countries, including China, India, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia. The plan calls for a complete Russian withdrawal and tribunals for alleged Russian war crimes.
For their part, Moscow has said it’s open to talks but insists any final settlement must recognize the four Ukrainian oblasts it has annexed as Russian territory, demonstrating how far apart the two sides are. Moscow’s other main demand is Ukrainian neutrality, but NATO has long-term plans to keep supporting Kyiv’s military and is expected to make more concrete commitments at an upcoming summit in July.
Western diplomats said they hope the Ukraine peace plan meeting can happen before the NATO summit, which will begin on July 11 in Vilnius, Lithuania. They expect President Biden and other leaders of NATO countries to attend. Western officials are hopeful they can get Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman but aren’t sure about Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Laughable. All this reveals is how delusional Western leaders has become.
Why would the Russians have any interest in a ‘peace plan’ that they weren’t involved in, for a war they are winning?
It seems to be part of the latest ‘plan’ by the imbecile warmongers in DC to ‘freeze’ the Ukrainian conflict. Of course, DC is in no position to freeze the conflict, because Russia has massive escalation dominance in Ukraine.
In reality, Moscow and Moscow alone will determine the intensity and momentum of military operations in Ukraine – not the likes of Zelensky, Blinken and / or Sullivan.
End of day, there are only 2 outcomes available to Kiev at this point – a complete surrender by Ukraine on Russia’s terms, or further offensive operations in Ukraine by Russia – leading to worse outcomes for Kiev.
Now that’s an oxymoron, the U.S. involved in a Peace Summit. The U.S. Offense Industry has no plans for peace. Call it what it is, a ‘War Summit’.
That wouldn’t sound good. Propaganda and appearance is very important for the empire. They’ve even renamed US Department of War to US Department of Defense to appear peaceful.
Right, nothing to do with “peace”, just a propaganda ‘peace plan’ hoping to give fence-sitters (“neutral countries) something to incline them Washington’s side, preserve their own street cred and avoid punishment from Neocon Central.
I’m starting to realize that NATO “plans for peace” are true. …What’s that? …You disagree? Just think for a moment about how peaceful it’s going to be after total nuclear annihilation of the human race. (Sarcasm alert)
Good grief. The amount of time and effort that the west devotes to pure bluff is astounding. Maybe the collective west is now secretly assembling a powerful army that it will suddenly unleech on Russia unexpectedly from nowhere. Thousands of miles of supply lines are spreading across Europe and sneaking up to Ukraine and Zelensky bravely blusters that he is about to retake Crimea. And to think this is taken seriously. Well, who knows?
Sure….
You need to win this before any tribunal is held.
The comedian better worry about what happens if ever a audit occurs because once he loses and Russia remains in control of where they are now, his fellow countymen are not going to be happy to see how the comedian became rich while they were dying in a failed war.
That “tribunal” will be ugly if they go that route instead of a bullet.
I think that the nations outside the west will listen politely to the US “peace” proposals, and then they will keep doing what they have been doing. The US is not fooling anyone here.
This plan ends up in a trash can instead of UN…!
On Mount Olympus the nato gods boviate
While below Ukraine suffers and dies
The HIPOCRISY of the West setting up a special court to try Putin for War crimes they couldn`t try him in the ICC because they would have been standing the side of him.
“Ukraine and Its Western Backers Plan ‘Peace Summit’ Without Russia”
How stupid is America and NATO?
That is like wanting to start a family and having sex with only yourself.
Most likely that makes sense in the degenerate West.
OMG we will decide that there will be peace but at no time will we include our one and only enemy in our peace summit project LOL.
edit) dudes you couldn’t make this sh*t up