Having looked at the nuke issues behind this conflagration, I’m coming to the inference that Zelenskyyyy is being very understated when he is making that request.
The ukes are building their nukes. They gave up nukes in the Budapest Agreement and have been promptly invaded TWICE by a signator of that agreement, and we have looked for dozens of ways to betray the ukes.
The Ukes are in an existential war. When we were in an existential war, we built nukes. So who are we to scold them when they deploy their nukes? Especially since we betrayed them once they delivered their nukes, and they never woulda been invaded if they had kept those nukes.
“The world must stop the war”
Zelensky has made the serious, perhaps fatal, category error of believing that there is a political-military entity called “the world”, or “the West”, or the “international community”.
If he had not done this, perhaps he would have not also made the error of thinking that war with Russia could have had a happy ending.