Overview of Chinese peace plan stirs controversy on day of one year of war

In the peace plan that China presented on Friday, the country calls on Russia and Ukraine to start peace talks as soon as possible China also rejects the use of nuclear weapons in the war.

"Nuclear weapons must not be used and nuclear wars cannot be fought," the country said in a statement from the foreign ministry "All parties must support Russia and Ukraine to work in the same direction and resume direct dialogue as soon as possible.

" The main points, according to China, are aimed at gradual de-escalation to eventually reach a ceasefire To ensure the security of all countries, dialogue and negotiations are the only way out, according to China.

In response to the plan, Ukraine is demanding that any peace plan respect Ukraine's 1991 borders In that year the country became independent.

At the time, the territory included the Crimea peninsula, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014, and the areas in eastern Ukraine seized by the Russians last year The government in Kyiv is not ready to give up territory, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed.

A peace plan, "resulting in a new demarcation line and a continued occupation of Ukrainian territory, is not about peace, but about freezing the war, about Ukrainian defeat" and about the "next stages of the Russian genocide," the top adviser tweeted .

Moscow says it "greatly appreciates" China's peace proposal over Ukraine Russia's foreign ministry said on Friday it shares Beijing's views on the conflict and is open to talks.

That does not mean that Russia has changed its position The Kremlin is sticking to the military goals, but could also achieve them through diplomatic channels.

Moreover, Moscow believes that peace can only come in Ukraine if the annexed territories are recognized as Russian France, Germany and the United Kingdom hope that the strengthening relationship between Ukraine and NATO will encourage Kyiv to start peace talks.

That's what three sources from the countries' governments told The Wall Street Journal Apart from a lot of news about peace talks, Friday was also marked by the first deliveries of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.

The country received the first four tanks from Poland, which has pledged a total of fourteen Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday that the other tanks would soon follow.

Morawiecki traveled to Kyiv on Friday to personally hand over the tanks Zelensky had been asking for the tanks for a long time.

"Poland and Europe will continue to support Ukraine We will not abandon you, but will continue to support you until Russia is defeated," Morawiecki said.

He also called on other allies to send their tanks quickly Germany, the producer of the tanks, is disappointed that the collection of those tanks has been slow so far.

The country was pressured to approve the deliveries But many countries are now delivering little or no quantities of their Leopard 2 tanks.

The European allies have promised Ukraine a total of two full tank battalions of some ninety Leopard 2 tanks They have now collected more than fifty of them.

This makes the Leopard 2 tank special and these countries have them.