War in Ukraine: Russia considers peace talks in Switzerland pointless

The Kremlin said today that it considers the June conference in Switzerland, to which Russia has not been invited, to find a solution to end the war in Ukraine pointless. The Swiss government announced that “at this stage” of the talks, Russia is not among the states that have been invited. Pointing out that it had always been open to Russia's invitation, he underlined that Moscow had repeatedly signaled that it was not interested in participating. Switzerland announced in January that it would host a peace summit at the request of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov questioned the credibility of the initiative. “What kind of conference can we talk about, with serious expectations of some kind of results, without the participation of Russia?” he told reporters. “This is absolutely impossible and it is clear that this is an initiative that does not aim for results,” he added. “Switzerland is convinced that Russia should be involved in this […]
Source: News Beast

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