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Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has asserted that the plan proposed by Ukraine should be enacted.

As the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) annual session moved towards its conclusion last week, China and Brazil hosted a 17-member meeting on its sidelines. The aim of the September 27 conclave: rally support behind their peace plan for the Ukraine war.

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, marking the largest war in Europe since the end of World War II, and fundamentally reshaping global relations and economics, with supply chains and food security disrupted around the planet.

Since then, and especially in recent weeks, Russia and Ukraine have escalated attacks in each other’s territories. Earlier this week, Russian forces grabbed the strategically located hilltop town of Vuhledar in eastern Ukraine.

But alongside the intense fighting, a parallel battle is fast taking shape – over competing peace plans to try to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. Analysis by political scientist Masha Hedburg for Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies estimates that between March 2022 and July 2024, at least 25 peace plans were put forth.

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