Overview

• Ukraine's presidential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has stated that China needs to be involved in future peace talks to end the war with Russia.
• Ukraine presented its 10-point 'peace formula' at the World Economic Forum in Davos, but Russia and its ally China were not present.
• The United Nations and its partners have appealed for $4.2 billion from donors to support war-ravaged communities in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees in 2024.
• Ukraine's peace plan calls for all Russian troops to leave Ukrainian territory, but Russia has dismissed the plan as 'absurd'.
• Ukraine will not accept a stalemate or 'frozen conflict' with Russia in which there is no progress toward peace.