Dozens of world leaders meeting in the canton of Nidwalden, in central Switzerland, will try to define this weekend the first steps towards peace in Ukraine. Russia has not been invited to the talks.
While a peace conference in Swiss to try to put an end to the Russian invasion of Ukrainesome believe that at some point it will be necessary to engage in talks with Moscow.
Since the Ukrainian government did not want Russia to participate, the Swiss, aware of Moscow’s reservations about the talks, Putin was not invitedwho has gone ahead of the appointment presenting their conditions for peace in Ukraine. But the hosts insist that Russia will have to participate at some point in the process and hope that it will one day join. Ukrainians are also considering this possibility.
A symbolic effort
It is unlikely that the conference, based on the elements of a peace formula of ten points presented by the president Zelenski by the end of 2022, will produce significant results, and is considered a largely symbolic effort of kyiv to win over the international community.
The countries of G7meeting this week in Italy, have already agreed increase your supportto Ukraineusing frozen Russian assets. But the underlying question at the summit is how end a war that has caused hundreds of thousands dead and injured and has cost hundreds of billions of euros.
The summit takes place between June 15 and 16 at a time when Russian forces have carried out modest territorial advances in eastern and northeastern Ukraineexpanding the control they already exercise over nearly a quarter of the country.
On Thursday, Swiss authorities reported the first cyber attacks related to the organization of this conference.
