A peace summit for Ukraine opens in Switzerland, but Russia won't be taking part

[sl8]

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-switzerland-summit-peace-burgenstock-zelenskyy-5df2e62407ed50dc324965ad66e3f9ae
(photos, links, at source)

A peace summit for Ukraine opens in Switzerland, but Russia won’t be taking part

BY JAMEY KEATEN
Updated 4:17 AM EDT, June 14, 2024

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland will host scores of world leaders this weekend to try to map out first steps toward peace in Ukraine even though Russia, which launched the ongoing war, won’t take part.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government didn’t want Russia involved, and the Swiss — aware of Moscow’s reservations about the talks — didn’t invite Russia. The Swiss insist Russia must be involved at some point, and hope it will join the process one day. Ukrainians, too, are considering that possibility.

The conference, underpinned by elements of a 10-point peace formula presented by Zelenskyy in late 2022, is unlikely to produce major results and is seen as a largely symbolic effort on the part of Kyiv to rally the international community and project strength against its better armed and numbered adversary.

But the question looming over the summit will be how the two countries can move back from the brink and eventually silence the guns in a war that has cost hundreds of billions of dollars and caused hundreds and thousands of deaths and injuries, without Moscow attending.

[..]
___
Associated Press writers Samya Kullab in Kyiv, Ukraine; Aamer Madhani in Washington; and Jim Heintz in Tallinn, Estonia, contributed to this report.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

1. Slightly different take on the summit.

Russia has not been invited.

"This weekend, a secluded Swiss resort above Lake Lucerne will be transformed as dozens of world leaders and thousands of soldiers and police descend on Bürgenstock.

More than 90 countries and global institutions are attending the event, which aims to discuss basic principles for ending the conflict in Ukraine.

The Swiss hope that the Ukraine summit might produce the first tentative sketch marks for a peace process, some 28 months after Russia invaded its neighbour.

It is the biggest gathering for Ukraine since the full-scale invasion...."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv22zlq4y20o

[niyad]

3. The source cited in the OP did mention that ruzzia was not invited.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

4. but the overall take was Russia not being included...

... likely wouldn't be productive. That was my sense of it anyway.

[niyad]

2. All putler has to do is stop the war, bring all his surviving troops home,

stop invading other countries. He can do that all by himself, does not have to go to a peace conference. The sane part of the world would be relieved.