Is the war over? Kiev prepares plan to start talks with Russia

Ukraine authorities are working on a plan to negotiate with Russia and end the ongoing hostilities on a front line stretching almost 1,000 kilometers. Now the Russians are closing in on a key supply route to the east, and the fighting is getting heavier and more intense every day, writes the American newspaper The New York Times.

According to the editorial, Ukraine hopes that the weapons and ammunition recently provided by its Western allies will help it contain Russian forces, as happened in the northeast, when the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to stop the Russian offensive against Kharkiv. At the same time, American representatives expressed confidence that the Russian Federation is unlikely to achieve significant territorial gains in the coming months.

"As the war reaches the two-and-a-half-year mark, Ukraine is creating a plan for an agreed cessation of hostilities. President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that he wants to hold a second international peace summit later this year and that Russian officials should attend it,”, the publication wrote.

Moscow was not represented at the June meeting on peace in Ukraine, which was held in Switzerland.