On 15 November 2022, during the Group of Twenty Summit in Indonesia, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented the Peace Formula. The Peace Formula has 10 points. Its implementation aims not only to bring just peace for Ukraine, but also to restore rules-based order and security for the whole world.
On 23 February 2023 during the renewed 11th Emergency Special Session the UN General Assembly adopted the Resolution «UN Charter principles underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine», which clearly reflected the vision of ways of achieving peace in Ukraine, proposed by the President of Ukraine in the Ukraine’s Peace Formula. The strong backing of the Resolution by the majority of the UN Member States (141 states voted "YES") gives the overwhelming support for the Peace Formula by the international community. In this regard we consider this initiative as the only efficient plan for ending Russia`s war of aggression against Ukraine.
Ukraine is interested in engaging the widest possible range of states in the implementation of the Peace Formula.
Implementation of 10 points of the Peace Formula, the sense of which was supported in the UN GA resolution “Principles of the Charter of the United Nations underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine”, should have the following deliverables:
1. Radiation and nuclear safety (op. 10 of the UNGA resolution): withdrawal by Russia of all its troops from the territory of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, complete demilitarization of the ZNPP and transfer of the ZNPP to the control of the Ukraine’s personnel and IAEA; sending of the IAEA missions to all Ukraine’s nuclear plants and verification by these missions of the cessation of enemy activity against Ukraine’s nuclear facilities (being implemented); creation of an air shield over Ukraine, which would include short-, medium- and long-range air defense systems, to protect the civilian population and critical infrastructure facilities; Russia's refusal of any threats of nuclear weapons use and receiving guarantees that the aggressor will not use nuclear weapons.
2. Food security (op. 10 of the UNGA resolution): continuation and expansion of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (inclusion of the ports of the Mykolaiv region and ports in the liberated territories of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions on an open-ended basis); strengthening global food security and the role of Ukraine as one of its guarantors; implementation and expansion of the number of participants of the Ukraine’s humanitarian initiative "Grain from Ukraine"; full restoration of freedom of navigation in the Black and Azov seas.
3. Energy security (op. 8 and op. 10 of the UNGA resolution): creation of an air shield over Ukraine to protect the civilian population and critical infrastructure facilities; protection and international monitoring of safety of Ukraine’s energy facilities; making it impossible for Russia to attack critical infrastructure objects of Ukraine, including using cruise or ballistic missiles and UAVs; restoration of Ukraine's energy infrastructure and provision of appropriate assistance (high-voltage equipment, generators, transformer substations, floating power plants), further reconstruction of the energy system of Ukraine in accordance with the principles of "green transition", modern technologies and energy efficiency.
4. Release of prisoners and deported persons (op. 6 of the UNGA resolution): release of Ukrainian captives by Russia according to the "all for all" formula; ensuring the rights of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians held by Russia; returning of Ukrainian civilians forcibly deported to Russia, first of all children; release of all Ukrainian political prisoners, who are held in Russia and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
5. Implementation of the UN Charter and restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and the world order (op. 2 and op. 4 of the UNGA resolution): ensuring Russia's implementation of the UN Charter, in particular Article 2 (Principles of the UN Charter); restoration of universal respect for the UN Charter and implementation of its Purposes and Principles; restoration of territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.
6. Withdrawal of Russian troops and cessation of hostilities (op. 5 of the UNGA resolution): withdrawal by Russia of all its troops and armed formations from the territory of Ukraine; restoration of Ukraine's control over all sections of the state border with Russia; complete cessation of hostilities.
7. Restoration of justice (op. 9 of the UNGA resolution): establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Russian Aggression against Ukraine; additional measures to ensure justice and accountability of Russia; establishment of the international compensation mechanism for harm, losses or damages resulting from Russia's internationally illegal actions in Ukraine (compensation at the expense of Russia’s assets); ensuring effective interaction with the International Criminal Court on the issue of accountability for committing the crime of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
8. Countering ecocide (op. 10 of the UNGA resolution): creation of a platform for assessing the environmental damage in Ukraine as a result of the Russian war of aggression; strengthening of international assistance for demining of the de-occupied territories of Ukraine; provision of financing and technologies for the restoration of treatment facilities in Ukraine; countering consequences of the Russian Federation's detonation of the dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (KHPP), which is located near the town of Nova Kakhovka in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region; ensuring the international legal responsibility of Russia for ecocide in Ukraine, preventing repetition of such crimes in the world.
9. Preventing escalation of war and repetition of aggression: providing Ukraine with the security guaranties based on Kyiv Security Compact for the period before joining NATO; creation of a system of international safeguards against the repetition of Russia’s aggression (revanchism) both against Ukraine and other countries of the world.
10. Confirmation of the end of the war: international legal formalization of the end of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. In particular, this should include: security guarantees for Ukraine in connection with future membership in NATO; conditions for bringing the Russian Federation to justice; determination of the scope and mechanisms of payment of compensations (reparations) by Russia; post-war settlement conditions; mechanisms to prevent the repetition of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and other states.