The release of a 28-point plan last week to end the war in Ukraine has generated heaps of commentary —and controversy . Part of that is outstanding questions over its authorship , which Reuters reported on Wednesday drew from a Russian paper submitted to the Trump Administration last month. Following a diplomatic scramble from Ukraine and Europe this week, a 19-point plan far more favorable to Kyiv has been developed. But unfortunately the revised plan, based on a European counter-proposal , stands no chance of being accepted by Moscow.

The stakes are enormous. If the peace talks fall apart, a war that has claimed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives, will grind on. And there is a real risk that Ukraine’s military position will worsen if not collapse; the

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