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Zelensky’s Peace Plan for Russia Wasn’t Worth the Ink to the New York Times or Washington Post

Al Jazeera’s got it covered. Maybe we’re not ready.

ScottCDunn
4 min readDec 30, 2022

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So good to see that Zelensky has published a peace plan. At least he has been talking about a peace plan in public. Russia immediately rejected it, but Ukraine has a peace plan on offer. Al-Jazeera posted a story on December 28th with some of the details of Zelensky’s 10-point peace plan:

  • Radiation and nuclear safety, focusing on restoring security around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine, which is now Russian-occupied.
  • Food security, including protecting and ensuring Ukraine’s grain exports to the world’s poorest nations.
  • Energy security, with a focus on price restrictions on Russian energy resources, as well as aiding Ukraine with restoring its power infrastructure, half of which has been damaged by Russian attacks.
  • Release of all prisoners and deportees, including war prisoners and children deported to Russia.
  • Restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity and Russia reaffirming it according to the UN Charter, which Zelenskyy said is “not up to negotiations”.
  • Withdrawal of Russian troops and the cessation of hostilities, the…

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