Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday to give up on the idea that Russia can be defeated on the battlefield and to support China's peace plan for Ukraine,

Wood delivered his remarks during a UN Security Council meeting, as reported by Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform. The diplomat stated that China’s six-point proposal for addressing the so-called "Ukrainian crisis" [China's term for Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine] does not complement Ukraine’s peace formula and fails to support Ukraine’s

Vladimir Putin has insisted that Ukraine accept the loss of the Russian-occupied regions of Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea as a precondition for peace talks.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has dismissed a Chinese-Brazilian peace initiative for the war in Ukraine as "destructive", and complained that Kyiv had not been involved in the process.

President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized a peace initiative put forward by Brazil and China as "destructive" in an interview with Brazilian outlet Metropoles published on Sept. 12.

I had a good conversation with President Lula, and I felt that he understood me. I was grateful for the meeting and was very open, absolutely open,” the Ukrainian president said. He explained that he hoped to see in Lula’s actions “an understanding of what is happening,