Ukraine pushes for February peace summit, wants Russia removed from UN Security Council
Ukraine's foreign minister said in an interview with The Associated Press that he would like to have a peace summit in February, the one-year anniversary of the war, and would like it to be held at the U.N.
"The United Nations could be the best venue for holding this summit, because this is not about making a favor to a certain country," Dmytro Kuleba told the AP. "This is really about bringing everyone onboard and there is no better place than the United Nations to do that."
He continued, "Every war ends in a diplomatic way. Every war ends as a result of the actions taken at the battlefield and at the negotiating table. But the balance of what will be won on the battlefield and what will be won at the table, it remains to be seen."
Russia has so far rejected serious peace talks with Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is calling for Russia to be expelled from the U.N. Security Council.
Ukrainian politician Iouri Loutsenko, the country's former prosecutor general, is leading the legal push to remove Russia as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council: "It's about world peace. It's about world security, and it's about the rule of law in the world."
Loutsenko and his team argue that Russia's membership is illegitimate because the seat was initially granted to the Soviet Union in 1991, not the Russian Federation.
"In very simple terms, we have every legal argument to prove that Russia has never become a legitimate member of the U.N.," he told ABC News.
-ABC News' Britt Clennett