Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s peace plan: Three meetings and a summit with (preferable) Russian participation

The word negotiation is still regarded with some suspicion among Ukrainian citizens. It had been put in a drawer and the key thrown away during months of resistance and counterattack against the Russian invasion. Nor was it on the government’s lips on a daily basis. But two and a half years after the start of the war it is beginning to sound, even if it does so as the final stage of a process in which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has fully immersed himself. The Ukrainian leader, together with his cabinet, led by Andrii Yermak, and the diplomatic work of his foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, wants to accelerate the next stages marked on his road map prior to the holding of a second peace summit, with possible Russian representation, foreseeably before the end of the year.

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