"If you truly want to fight Russia, go to the front. Do not censor the Ukrainians who call for peace. To sit comfortably in the West and attack those who demand an end to the slaughter does not make you a hero. It makes you a hypocrite."
The speech Iuliia Mendel was supposed to deliver at the European Parliament on September 16 before she was barred from appearing, was less a peace plan than an indictment of the assumptions underpinning Ukraine’s current war strategy
