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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.

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 restoration of Ukraine’s state borders with Russia.
• Justice, including the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian war crimes.
• The prevention of ecocide, and the protection of the environment, with a focus on demining and restoring water treatment facilities.
• Prevention of an escalation of conflict and building security architecture in the Euro-Atlantic space, including guarantees for Ukraine.
• Confirmation of the war’s end, including a document signed by the involved parties.

It turns out I was wrong about there not being much “shuttle diplomacy”. I really wanted to be wrong about that. For weeks, Zelensky has been sharing this plan with world leaders for feedback and to demonstrate a willingness to talk about peace. I want to be wrong that Zelensky is more interested in defeating Russia than securing peace by agreement with Russia for his…