Ukraine has planned another “peace summit” but their peace summits are not peace summits. The last summit that Ukraine hosted in Switzerland involved a fantasy plan that would have Ukraine take control of Crimea and the Donbas region while moving forward to join NATO. Those regions voted to join Russia after the Ukrainian army repeatedly attacked them and Ukraine has given no assurances that the people living there would be safe or free if they regained control.
Russia has rejected Ukraine’s “peace proposals” repeatedly but Ukraine keeps making theater of these summits. Ukraine did not even invite Russia to the last summit in June so how can you call that a peace negotiation when one party is not invited?
Ukraine now says that Russia is invited to the next summit. Ukrainian President Zelensky said this to Reuters: “I set a goal that in November we would have a fully ready plan. I think that representatives of Russia should be at the second summit.”
Well, that’s progress. Russian spokesman Dmitry Peskov agreed that Russia should be there but they won’t fall for another Western-backed summit like the one in Switzerland which was, according to Peskov, “by no means a peace summit…. Therefore, it is probably necessary to first understand what he [Zelensky] means.”
