On Tuesday, the Kremlin pointed out that Russia should first grasp what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meant by “peace summit” before accepting any offer to discuss.
Last month at high-level talks in Switzerland that did not include Moscow, Zelenskyy said on Monday that Russia must be represented in a second summit on the Ukraine conflict.
“The first peace summit was not a peace summit at all. So perhaps it is necessary to first understand what he means,” Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson for the Kremlin told Zvezda news outlet.
This represents a shift in rhetoric from his Swiss conference where Ukrainian leader categorically ruled out inviting Moscow. Instead, during his press conference in Switzerland last week, Zelenskyy directly stated that Russia will not be invited to any subsequent meetings discussing Ukraine’s security situation.
The two-day event took place near Geneva (Switzerland) on June 15 and 16 with over 90 leaders and senior officials from around the globe gathering in a Swiss mountain resort to deliberate on how best ending Europe’s largest conflict since World War II.
Neither China nor Russia were present. The Kremlin attacked this meeting harshly arguing that it was absurd for anyone to engage any discussion about ending victimisation of their respective lands without involving them.
