Our transparent office on Mazepa is full of constructive conversations and discussions today. We met with our party members from all over the country to learn about the lives in Ukrainian cities and villages. How they are preparing for the harsh winter. What people in Chernihiv, Sumy, Lviv, Kherson, Ivano-Frankivsk, and other parts of Ukraine are talking about now.
The word “peace” was often heard in conversations. This is what every Ukrainian longs for, as we pay the highest price for it.
European Solidarity has its own plan to end this war. We have experience, as we managed to ensure this in 2014—2015.
In 2019, the thesis was: to stop the war, “we just need to stop shooting.” But that didn’t work. Because if Ukraine stops shooting, there will be no Ukraine. If Russia stops shooting, there will be peace.
We are convinced that before discussing security guarantees and the conditions to end the war, we must achieve one thing: an immediate, unconditional, and comprehensive ceasefire. Only after this can we sit at the negotiating table and discuss what the peace agreement will be.
It is said that if a plan has more than seven points, it doesn’t exist. So we developed a six-point plan.
The first is that our negotiation positions will be stronger if our Defense Forces stand firm. Therefore, the Verkhovna Rada must adopt a budget for a warring country, not what the government is trying to push. We must direct all funds to the Armed Forces, not to the government’s election campaign.
Our second task is to reduce Russia’s ability to wage war. We need to strike military infrastructure on its territory: oil refining industries, data centers, Russian weapon production. And for this, we need Ukrainian missiles. Not those promised in 15 years, but those our team developed — “Neptunes.”
Time should work for Ukraine. We need to disrupt Putin’s plan to exhaust Ukraine. We do not have the time to wait for Ukrainian ballistics to appear in decades; we must strike the Russians with modern and effective weapons. This is the third point.
The fourth task we face is to make the war unprofitable for Russia. The enemy’s losses in September alone were 48,000 people. It needs to lose allies. It needs to continue losing people. It needs to lose equipment and money. Then Putin will have motivation to end the war.
The fifth point—with partners, we must establish an effective approach to sanctions consolidation. We need to revive the failed dialogue with Europe, America, China, India, Brazil…
The final point should be the reconstruction of Ukraine. Building a renewed, modern, and European economy.
I am grateful to our party members from all over Ukraine for the honest discussion. To everyone who came and shared what is happening locally. Such meetings help us better understand the life of the country.
The fourteenth stage of the XIII Ordinary Congress of the Political Party “European Solidarity” took place in Kyiv.
At the congress, the protocols of the party’s territorial organizations were considered, with proposals for recalling local council deputies by popular initiative.
Due to non-compliance of a local council deputy’s practical activities with the main principles and provisions of the pre-election program of the local party organization from which they were elected, and the party program, failure to maintain contact with the Kherson territorial organization of the party, the congress decided to recall Nataliya Tarasova, Valeriy Saltykov, and Viktor Pungin, deputies of the Kherson Regional Council.
Due to the termination of membership in the factions of the Political Party “European Solidarity” in local councils, a decision was made to recall Ruslan Syrotyuk, a deputy of the Odesa District Council of the Odesa region; Yulia Ochiretnyuk, a deputy of the Bilogorodka Village Council of the Bucha District of the Kyiv region; Svitlana Abramiv, a deputy of the Netishyn City Council of the Shepetivka District of the Khmelnytskyi region.
Due to a local council deputy missing more than half of the sessions of the standing commission of the local council during the year, a decision was made to recall Andriy Karpov, a deputy of the Poltava City Council of the Poltava District of the Poltava region. “Those deputies who do not work with voters, are abroad, have lost contact with the community, cannot be in local government bodies, which today bear a lot of responsibility in minimizing the consequences of the war, and cannot represent our political force,” emphasized the Poltava party organization.
Due to a local council deputy missing more than half of the plenary sessions of the council and sessions of the standing commission during the year, a decision was made to recall Andriy Kalashnyk, a deputy of the Podilsk District Council in Poltava.
Due to the failure of local council deputies to attend more than half of the council’s plenary sessions and committee meetings throughout the year, as well as the failure to fulfill obligations to report to voters and hold meetings with them, decisions were made to recall Ivan Volodymyrovych Nanka and Leonid Viktorovych Mosha, deputies of the Nedryhailiv settlement council of the Romny district in the Sumy region.
