Ukraine war: Zelensky preparing ‘comprehensive plan’ to end Russia conflict
“It is very important for us to show a plan to end the war that will be supported by the majority of the world,” Zelensky said on Friday.
“This is the diplomatic route we are working on,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv alongside Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar.
More than 90 countries sent leaders and senior officials to the two-day summit with Zelensky in Switzerland.
The vast majority of whom agreed to a final communique that stressed the need for Ukraine’s “territorial integrity” to be respected in any settlement.
But some key countries that attended, like India, did not agree and others, like Russia’s ally China, boycotted the summit in protest at Moscow not being invited.
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Ukraine war two years on: disease, displacement and demands for aid
Ukraine has repeatedly said Russia must pull its troops out of its internationally recognised territory, including the peninsula of Crimea that Moscow annexed in 2014, before peace talks can start.
Meanwhile, Putin, who launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, is demanding Ukraine effectively capitulate by evacuating even more territory across its east and south.
In Brussels on Thursday, Zelensky said he would put forward a “detailed plan” in a matter of months.
“We don’t have too much time,” he said, pointing to the high casualty rate among soldiers and civilians.
Russia’s troops are slowly advancing on the battlefield, claiming to have seized another small frontline village on Friday.
They currently occupy around a fifth of Ukraine and in 2022 claimed to have annexed four more regions, none of which they fully controlled.
Ukraine relies on Western financial and military aid to push back the invading Russian forces, but its troops are outgunned, outmanned and exhausted after more than two years of fighting.