The peace plan of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi includes military coercion of the Russian Federation for peace, political and economic components, as well as a plan of diplomatic coercion, Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President’s Office, said.
“In general terms, four key directions, which are written in detail with additions where there are relevant figures. This is military coercion of the Russian Federation, taking into account the experience of the war in the Kursk region and the war in the Donetsk region. How much of what range of weapons do we need, how quickly should they be on the battlefield. And, accordingly, what investments are needed in the Military Industry of Ukraine in order to increase its own production of long-range capabilities”, – said Podolyak on the air of the national telethon on Thursday evening.
He noted that it is also about a “substantial increase in the war on the territory of the Russian Federation”, as well as the elimination of “all these informal restrictions that prevent systematic strikes deep into the Russian Federation.”
“The second component (of the peace plan – IF), the second direction is the political direction. It is necessary to fix the key positions once again – well, for example, if Ukraine wants to be a member of some collective security alliance, it has a full sovereign right to this, realizing its subjectivity, and no Russian Federation can say – will you be a member of this or that alliance or you won’t,” said Podolyak.
The third component, according to him, is economic and it is bilateral. “These are investments in Ukraine, our production, in order to clearly understand how much, what money and what licenses we can count on from the point of view of our own production, as well as remove Russia from global markets so that they cannot continue to finance this war to the extent that in which they are doing it today,” added the adviser to the head of the President’s Office. According to Podoliak, the fourth component of the peace plan is diplomatic coercion of the Russian Federation.
“Ukraine’s proposals are not about theory, not about what can be, how it can be, how we can theoretically think about it, etc. Ukraine’s plan is based on a factual analysis of what is happening, firstly, on the front line, and secondly, in the Kursk region on the territory of the Russian Federation. There is an analysis of how effective weapons can be used if they are in the appropriate amount, how it will affect the situation on the front line and social sentiments in the Russian Federation… The plan is based on the logic of the moment,” he emphasized.
The plan will be discussed in more detail after Zelensky’s scheduled meeting in the US with US President Joseph Biden, as well as US presidential candidates in the upcoming elections from the Democratic and Republican parties, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, said the adviser to the head of the President’s Office.
Also, according to him, the plan does not envisage freezing the war. “Today, Ukraine most clearly understands what kind of war this is, and explains what consequences this war can lead to, if any formulas for freezing the conflict are used, because any freezing of the conflict will be preserved by the political regime in the Russian Federation,” Podolyak said.
