New Ukraine peace plan

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 06 Nov 2020 by Alex Teddy
On November 5 the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) produced a new peace proposal. The aim is to stage local elections in Donbass and Luhansk in March 2021. There are 5 steps in the plan: the withdrawal of foreign fighters, repealing the law offering Russian citizenship to residents of the disputed territory, the international border to return to Ukrainian superintendence, more OSCE monitors and only then elections. Ukraine would then create a free economic zone till 2051.Moscow was not ecstatic about these proposals. Not much in the plan is novel. On October 14 Russia offered its vision for peace. The Russians wanted Donbass and Luhansk to have special status: Ukrainian laws on language to be changed, popular militias to be recognized as legitimate, with a pullout of foreign OSCE soldiers, local elections and then the dissolution of the Luhansk and Donbass People's Republics. After that the border would revert to Ukrainian control in conjunction with representatives of Donbass, Luhansk and Russia. There is still too much distance between the two plans. The people's militias are pro-Russian organizations that Ukraine calls terrorists. Both sides are waiting for a winner in the US election. The US has taken its eye off Ukraine. It is notable that Russia is proposing a plan that is not within the auspices of the Minsk Agreement.

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