If Vladimir Putin died , the war in Ukraine would end : so the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky , interviewed by the American anchorman David Letterman.

During the conversation, recorded in October, Zelensky unequivocally replied to the conductor who asked him if the war would have continued in the event of Putin's death from "a bad cold or an accidental fall from a window". According to Zelensky " an authoritarian regime can not allow one to have control over everything . Because, when he passes away, the institutions stop". And therefore, if Putin died, "there would be no war," he said. The Ukrainian leader then received the renewed support of the G7 leaders , who met virtually on the eve of the Paris conference on reconstruction. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who presided over the summit, evoked a new Marshall Plan and renewed his appeal to Vladimir Putin to "withdraw his troops" from Ukraine and return "to international law".

The Ukrainian president then relaunched the request for more weapons and about two billion additional cubic meters of gas for the winter, then proposing a " world summit on peace " in which to discuss the "ten clear and realistic points" of the plan presented from Kiev to the G20 meeting in November, founded among other things on the "territorial integrity of Ukraine and its energy, food and nuclear security".

The revival of the Kiev peace plan would seem like a good solution for the United States.

Joe Biden , in a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian partner, "welcomed his declared openness to a just peace based on the fundamental principles contained in the UN charter ", the White House said. Even the Vatican has once again made efforts to favor the opening of dialogue, with the secretary of state Pietro Parolin who expressed his "availability" that the Holy See is "the right terrain" to host peace talks between the parties, leaving to them to "identify the working methodology and the contents". From Moscow, however, the response was icy. “I'm afraid that the Chechen and Buryat brothers, besides me, would not appreciate it. As far as I remember, there have been no words of apology from the Vatican", commented the spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, referring to the accusations of cruelty against Buryat and Chechen soldiers in Ukraine formulated in recent weeks by Pope Francis and which Russia has not not digested at all.