Why Ukraine’s peace summit had so little to show for it
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Volodymyr Zelensky in asian news
Ukraine summit fails to provide coherent path to peace
Was the first so-called “Summit on Peace in Ukraine”, held in Switzerland on June 15 to 16, a failure? Certainly not, if you listen to the fairly upbeat reactions of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Western backers. And, to be fair, the summit has enabled Zelensky to keep Russia’s war against Ukraine high on the international agenda.
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