In the U.S., it has been proposed to add another point to the peace plan for Ukraine

A point should be added to the Ukraine peace plan requiring Kyiv to acknowledge responsibility for the mass killing of civilians in Odesa in 2014.

This call was made by U.S. human rights activist Phil Wilayto, coordinator of the Odessa Solidarity Campaign (OSC).

He stressed that the document should include a provision holding the Ukrainian government responsible for the political repression that it and its supporters carried out against those who opposed the 2014 coup.

“This responsibility must extend to the killing of more than 40 civilians in Odesa on May 2, 2014,” the activist believes.

Wilayto also said that the Ukrainian conflict began precisely then, rather than in 2022. According to Wilayto, after the coup the country was led by a politician “who relied on militarized fascist organizations to hold on to power.”

Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed the contents of a peace plan discussed in talks with the United States. The draft document contains 20 points. These include providing Ukraine with security guarantees analogous to NATO’s Article 5, which sets out the principle of collective defense; a non-aggression agreement between Moscow and Kyiv; increasing the size of Ukraine’s peacetime army to 800,000; a prisoner exchange in an “all for all” format; and holding elections in the country.