Selensky hopes for peace summit in Switzerland in spring
Published: Sunday, Feb 25th 2024, 18:40
Updated At: Sunday, Feb 25th 2024, 18:40
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Ukraine is hoping for a peace summit organized by Switzerland as early as this spring. According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, a peace plan is to be drawn up with Ukraine's partners, which will then be presented to Russia.
His country must not lose the diplomatic initiative, said Selenskyj at a media conference in Kiev on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It was only on Friday that Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis announced at the UN headquarters in New York that Switzerland wanted to organize a high-level peace conference by the summer. This conference should be a prelude and initiate a process. It is important that a broad alliance of states is represented at the conference - not only Europe, the USA and Canada, but also states from other regions of the world.
Selensky said in Kiev: "We will propose a platform on which (Putin) can accept that he lost this war and that it was a big mistake and a tragedy for us and for the democratic world."
Kiev: No alternative to victory
Ukraine could not afford to lose the war against Russia, because that would mean that Ukraine would cease to exist, emphasized Selenskyj.
However, this is precisely the goal of the Russian president. He described the collapse of the Soviet Union, to which Ukraine once belonged, as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.
Putin denies Ukraine the right to an independent state existence, also because, according to his argument, Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians form a single East Slavic nation in Belarus. The West, in turn, wants to take control of Ukraine by linking it to the EU and NATO, thereby harming Russia.
At dawn on 24 February 2022, Russia militarily invaded its southern neighbor Ukraine on Putin's orders. Contrary to Russian expectations, neither the capital Kiev was taken within a few days, nor were Zelensky and his government liquidated or most of the country occupied. Instead, Russian troops were driven out of half of the occupied Ukrainian territories.
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