Zelenskyy presents phrases to cease preventing, assuring US that Ukraine desires peace – The Occasions of India

KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine on Tuesday supplied a plan of action that he mentioned may finish the conflict, whereas making an attempt to guarantee the Trump administration that his authorities was devoted to peace.
“Our assembly in Washington, on the White Home on Friday, didn’t go the best way it was speculated to be,” Zelenskyy wrote on the social platform X. “It’s regrettable that it occurred this manner. It’s time to make issues proper.”
He was referring to an explosive assembly on the White Home final week during which President Donald Trump berated Zelenskyy and referred to as him ungrateful. Trump adopted up Monday by saying that he was pausing all US army support to Ukraine.
The Ukrainian chief mentioned he was able to launch Russian prisoners of conflict, cease long-range drone and missile strikes aimed toward Russian targets, and declare a truce at sea instantly — strikes that he mentioned would assist set up a pathway to peace.
Solely, nevertheless, “if Russia will do the identical,” he added.

Zelenskyy’s proposal appeared clearly designed to shift the burden for ending the conflict onto Russia, which launched its invasion three years in the past. The White Home has claimed that the Ukrainian chief is the principle impediment to peace.
In his submit, Zelenskyy supplied effusive reward for US help, noting particularly “the second when issues modified when President Trump supplied Ukraine with Javelins.”
“We’re grateful for this,” he wrote. “Ukraine is able to come to the negotiating desk as quickly as potential to carry lasting peace nearer,” he added. “My workforce and I stand able to work below President Trump’s robust management to get a peace that lasts.”
There was no quick response from the Kremlin to Zelenskyy’s proposal.
In latest weeks, nevertheless, President Vladimir Putin of Russia has supplied no trace of being keen to de-escalate the conflict earlier than successful main concessions from the West and Ukraine — like ruling out Ukrainian Nato membership, lowering the alliance’s footprint in Europe, limiting the scale of Ukraine’s army, and giving Russia affect over Ukraine’s home politics.