The latest major power to do so, Indonesia, on June 3, 2023, at the Shangri-La Asian Security Forum in Singapore, proposed a new peace plan for Ukraine. It suggests an immediate ceasefire on the current front line, followed by the implementation of a large demilitarized zone along that line, with the dispatch of peacekeepers. The fate of the oblasts totally or partially occupied by Russia would then be decided by referendums conducted by UN observers.
The government in Jakarta has taken this initiative because it feels that the time has come for a cessation of hostilities. Strategically, neither belligerent will be able, in the foreseeable future, to impose its vision on its adversary. None is able to win the war. Russian ideologues friends of the Kremlin, nostalgic for Catherine II's "Novorossiya", can always continue to dream of taking Odessa, but it will not happen...
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