The G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa serves as a crucial platform for allies to meet and strengthen the 28-point U.S.-backed peace plan.
The summit begins a day after President Volodymer Zelensky warned Ukraine has faced one of the most challenging periods in our history.
However, Zelensky held a telephonic conversation with Sir Keir Starmer and the leaders of France and Germany on Friday.
The PM has confirmed that Ukraine’s “friends and partners” remain dedicated to securing a “lasting peace once and for all.”
Sir Keir’s prime motive for the G20 talks for leaders to discuss the submitted recommendation, following President Trump's push for peace and how this reinforced the plan for the future action.
According to Trump remarks on Friday, Ukraine will lose more territory to Russia in a limited period, and Zelensky will have to approve the plan.
The US president has given a specific time to Ukraine until Thursday to accept the plan, which he described as a suitable deadline.
Russian troops have been making slow progress along the vast front line rather than reporting major devastation.
Ukraine relies on deliveries of US-advanced military hardware to arms its forces including its defensive systems.
During a meeting with his security cabinet on Friday, the Russian president, in a meeting with the US, presented his preferred peace plan and said that it would be the foundation for a settlement.
He said Russia would be willing to show flexibility but not prepared to fight at the moment.
In this connection, Zelensky has had to find a middle ground between Kyiv’s interests and retaining amicable relations with Trump, a man with whom he had a public falling at the White House this year and who has expressed general irritation at the lack of progress in peace talks.
Moreover, the leaked draft suggests a withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the part of the eastern Donetsk region that they control, giving Russia de facto control of Donetsk, along with the neighboring Luhansk region and the southern Crimea peninsula, which Moscow expropriated in 2014.
It has been observed that Russia has control of around 20% of Ukrainian territory.
The plan states that Kyiv would receive firm assurances, but no specific details have been given.
The document further suggests that Russia will not conquer its neighbours and that Nato will not expand further.
The G20 summit concluded with a unified approach and a commitment to work with Kyiv to reinforce the proposal rather than force its immediate acceptance.
The draft suggests that Russia will be reconnected with the international economy through the removal of penalties and by being allowed to rejoin the G7 group of the world’s most powerful countries, transforming it into the G8 again.
Nonetheless, the G20 talks illustrate that there is pressure on Kyiv to engage with the peace framework, but the allies ensured that the process of negotiation, not the existing draft, will define the path to peace.