“Now Ukraine may find itself facing a very difficult choice — either loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a somber video address this Friday. Standing in the centre of a rain-soaked Kyiv, he warned Ukrainians that they were amid “one of the most difficult moments in our history,” and that the country would have to decide between an “extremely difficult winter” or a life without freedom, dignity and justice.

His address was published in response to a new 28-point “peace” plan , which top American officials secretly developed in partnership with Russia this autumn without Ukrainian or European input. Allies have been shocked by the plan’s Kremlin-friendly terms, which essentially demand Kyiv’s capitulation , and hav

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