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US President Joe Biden’s absence from a Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland would be akin to giving Russian leader Vladimir Putin a standing ovation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday, urging maximum participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Biden has yet to confirm whether or not he will attend the conference, set for mid-June. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“If he is not present, it will be just like applauding Putin: personally applauding and doing so standing,” Zelensky said during a visit to Brussels.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I believe that the Peace Summit needs President Biden, and other leaders who are looking at the US response also need him,” he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zelensky has said dozens of world leaders will attend the summit. He said Tuesday that attending or not is a “choice” between wanting peace or war in Ukraine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“If you want peace, you will be there and you will speak, even if you don’t agree with something,” he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“And if you want war, you will go to the mob that Russia wants to organise,” he added, saying that countries who will skip the summit are “satisfied with war.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zelensky has ruled out Moscow’s participation and accused Putin of trying to derail the summit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Putin is very scared of the peace summit,” he said. “He has been trying to thwart this summit and continues to do so.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said the Kremlin is “doing everything” for the “further expansion of the war.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia has made gains in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks, launching a renewed ground offensive in the northeast of the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NDTV: US President Joe Biden’s absence from a Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland would be akin to giving Russian leader Vladimir Putin a standing ovation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday, urging maximum participation. Biden has yet to confirm whether or not he will attend the conference, set for mid-June. “If he is not present, it will be just like applauding Putin: personally applauding and doing so standing,” Zelensky said during a visit to Brussels.\u00a0 “I believe that the Peace Summit needs President Biden, and other leaders who are looking at the US response also need him,” he… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39640,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39638\/revisions\/39640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}