If Vladimir Putin died , the war in Ukraine would end : so the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky , interviewed by the American anchorman David Letterman.

During the conversation, recorded in October, Zelensky unequivocally replied to the conductor who asked him if the war would have continued in the event of Putin's death from "a bad cold or an accidental fall from a window". According to Zelensky " an authoritarian regime can not allow one to have control over everything . Because, when he passes away, the institutions stop". And therefore, if Putin died, "there would be no war," he said. The Ukrainian leader then received the renewed support of the G7 leaders , who met virtually on the eve of the Paris conference on reconstruction. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who presided over the summit, evoked a new Marshall Plan and renewed his appeal to Vladimir Putin to "withdraw his troops" from Ukraine and return "to international law".

The Ukrainian president then relaunched the request for more weapons and about two billion additional cubic meters of gas for the winter, then proposing a " world summit on peace " in which to discuss the "ten clear and realistic points" of the plan presented from Kiev to the G20 meeting in November, founded among other things on the "territorial integrity of Ukraine and its energy, food and nuclear security".

The revival of the Kiev peace plan would seem like a good solution for the United States.

Joe Biden , in a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian partner, "welcomed his declared openness to a just peace based on the fundamental principles contained in the UN charter ", the White House said. Even the Vatican has once again made efforts to favor the opening of dialogue, with the secretary of state Pietro Parolin who expressed his "availability" that the Holy See is "the right terrain" to host peace talks between the parties, leaving to them to "identify the working methodology and the contents". From Moscow, however, the response was icy. “I'm afraid that the Chechen and Buryat brothers, besides me, would not appreciate it. As far as I remember, there have been no words of apology from the Vatican", commented the spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, referring to the accusations of cruelty against Buryat and Chechen soldiers in Ukraine formulated in recent weeks by Pope Francis and which Russia has not not digested at all.

And while the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba evokes the specter of the hypothesis of a complete blackout following the Russian bombings and the news arrives from the Kremlin that the traditional year-end press conference, for the first time in the last 10 years, will not according to what was reported by the Russian newspaper Vedomosti, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold talks before the new year: the meeting, preparations for which are underway, will serve to take stock of the results for 2022 but is unlikely to take place face-to-face, rather by videoconference.

(Unioneonline/vl)

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