All right, we are live with Alexander McCurice in London,

and we are joined once again on the Duran with Ian Proud.

Great to have you with us. Once again, Ian,

before we get started, where is the best place for people to follow your work?

Please follow me on the peacemonger, which is my substack, why talk often in vain, it seems,

at times about the need to bring peace in Ukraine and other places and on my website,

Prouddiplomat.com.

I have got those links down below to the substack, to the website.

I also have the link for Ian's X account as well.

It puts out a lot of great posts on X. So before we get started, Ian Alexander, let's just say a quick hello to everyone that is watching us on Odyssey, on Rockfin, on Rumble, on YouTube, and of course, on our locals.

Page, the durand.locals.com.

Great to have you with us.

And a quick shout out to our moderators as well.

Zareel in the house.

I believe I saw Peter somewhere in there as well. So those are our moderators. Thank you for everything that you do.

Alexander, Ian, let's talk about what is going on with Project Ukraine, with the UK and with the EU and all of these peace plans and these ceasefire plans.

Indeed, let's do so. No one better to discuss these with and with the peacemonger with Ian Proud.

And can I actually push back a little about the point you made about this, that this is sometimes a very difficult thing?

And it doesn't seem as if we're making any progress in getting this idea of a negotiated solution moving forward.

Just go back to where we were this time last year, to the kind of rhetoric and the discussions that were happening then.

We are in a completely different diplomatic media universe now. There's clearly

a great deal of exasperation and anger on the part of all sorts of people, that there's even

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