News - Zelenskyy says negotiations with Russia are possible only on basis of his ‘peace formula’

In his speech at the UN Security Council, the president of Ukraine spoke in detail about how he sees the negotiations with Russia to end the war, reports the BBC. Volodymyr Zelenskyy's main idea was that the war can end only on the basis of the "peace formula" he has proposed. But Moscow rejects this formula, and even many commentators sympathetic to Ukraine in the West sometimes consider it maximalist. Zelenskyy said Ukraine knows some countries want to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin. But, he asked, “What could they possibly hear from him—that he’s upset because we are exercising our right to defend our people, or that he wants to keep the war and terror going just so no one thinks he was wrong?” The Ukrainian president emphasized that his country "peace resolution" is based on the UN Charter and spoke ironically of other countries being discussed as potential mediators in peace plans that include concessions to Moscow. "And we do not have different versions of the UN Charter for different parts of the world. We do not have regional ‘quasi-charters.’ There is no separate UN Charter for BRICS or for the G7. There is no separate Russian-Iranian UN Charter, or no separate Chinese-Brazilian UN Charter. There is one UN Charter, which unites everyone—must unite everyone," said Zelenskyy.