Zelenskiy goes after China, and Brazil tries to make peace in Ukraine

Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy turned down China’s and Brazil’s attempts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. He asked why they were proposing a different way to make peace than his own plan and warned, “You will not gain power at the expense of Ukraine.”

Russian troops went into Ukraine in February 2022. Nine months later, Zelenskiy revealed a 10-point peace plan based on international law and the U.N. Charter to end the war in a fair way. Moscow said no to the plan.

“The peace formula has been around for two years,” Zelenskiy told the UN General Assembly. “Perhaps someone wants a Nobel Prize for their political biography for a frozen truce instead of real peace, but Putin will only give you more suffering and disasters in return.” He was referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin would be able to keep the war going if “alternatives, half-hearted settlement plans, so-called sets of principles” were put forward, Zelenskiy said.

The six-point peace plan that China and Brazil put out in May has been an effort to get poor countries to join.

Within their plan, there should be an international peace conference “held at a proper time that is recognized by both Russia and Ukraine, with equal participation of all parties and fair discussion of all peace plans.”

When he spoke to the General Assembly on Tuesday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pushed for the plan.

He told the 193-member assembly that any other or rival efforts to find peace were really just lulls in the war, not real attempts to end it.

“The real question is what is the point when the Chinese and Brazilian pair tries to join forces with other voices from Europe and Africa to say something other than a full and just peace?” “You will not get stronger at the expense of Ukraine,” he told them.

It is planned that the president of Ukraine will present a “victory plan” to Vice President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday.