The outside world's response

Biden believes in peace: "We are stronger than we think when we work together"

In his last speech to the UN General Assembly as President of the United States, Joe Biden says that peace is still possible in both Ukraine and the Middle East.

- I know that many look at the outside world with despair. I don't do that. Because I know that we are stronger than we think when the world works together, he says.

Biden says his role during the ongoing conflicts has largely been about countering forces that have sought to divide the West.

- Our challenge, our trial, has been to ensure that the forces that hold us together have been stronger than those that divide us.

He ends the speech by saying that there is much more he wants to accomplish.

- But some things are more important than maintaining power, he says, which the New York Times interprets as a fit for Donald Trump.

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Expectations for Kyiv's winning plan are being turned down

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will this week present a plan for how to achieve peace in the war against Russia. But even before the speech, Western sources that Bloomberg spoke to are trying to play down expectations.

One source says it contains no surprises and another describes Zelensky's plan as a wish list.

The Ukrainian president will present the plan to the outside world in connection with the UN General Assembly meeting this week. Roughly speaking, it means that Ukraine will be invited to NATO and that the West will ignore the Kremlin's threats of escalation.

Zelenskyi has previously said that the outside world will split if his plan is not accepted.

- Then we will get one side that supports Ukraine and another that pretends to support that Ukraine and Russia should negotiate.

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President of the Czech Republic: Time to realize that nobody wins

The most likely outcome of the war in Ukraine is that parts of the country's occupied territory remain in the hands of Russia. This is what Czech President Petr Pavel, who has clearly taken a stand for Ukraine, told the New York Times ahead of this week's UN summit.

31 months into the war, according to Pavel, it is time to realize that neither Ukraine nor Russia looks like winning the war. It is something that both parties will have to adjust to. For Russia, this means dropping the demand to keep four annexed regions in Ukraine. For Ukraine to give up thoughts of regaining occupied territory such as the Krym peninsula - at least "temporarily".

- A loss for Ukraine or a loss for Russia, it simply won't happen. So the end of the war will be somewhere in between, says Pavel.

The president of the Czech Republic has primarily a ceremonial role, but according to the NYT, his views are close to Prime Minister Petr Fialas.