Moscow will not participate in the peace summit on Ukraine

Russia will not participate in the peace summit, which Ukraine plans to organize by the end of the year. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova. According to her, the event is “another manifestation of the fraud of the Anglo-Saxons and their Ukrainian puppets.”

“The so-called second summit still pursues the same goal — to drag out the absolutely unviable “Zelensky formula” as an alternative basis for resolving the conflict, to gain its support from the world majority and, on his behalf, present Russia with an ultimatum about capitulation,” Zakharova said in a statement.

The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also noted that Moscow does not refuse “serious proposals that take into account the situation on the ground.”

By “world majority”, Russian propaganda means countries that did not join the Western-led coalition supporting Ukraine. There are more such states than Kyiv’s allies. Their total population is also larger, including due to China and India. At the same time, the countries of the world majority do not have a unified position regarding Russia’s war against Ukraine, the BBC clarifies.

Ukraine has not yet commented on Zakharova’s statement.

• On September 20, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, reported that Kyiv is working on a victory plan and has prepared three points for starting a conversation with Russia. The Ukrainian leader noted that Ukraine’s allies agree with the invitation of representatives of Moscow to the event.
• At a meeting with journalists, Zelensky noted that one of the points of the plan is related to Ukraine’s place in the world security architecture, the second – to the supply of weapons, and the third – to the economic development of the country. According to the Ukrainian president, Russia should also see the plan.
• Ukraine insists that for a peace agreement, Russia must withdraw its troops to the borders of 1991, including from the annexed Crimea.
• The Kremlin stated that Ukraine should withdraw its troops from the territories occupied by the Russian army in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions in order to start peace negotiations, and also abandon plans to join NATO.

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