The Ukrainian leader last week pleaded with his counterparts in China and the US to attend the summit in Switzerland in mid-June which is aimed at finding a peace solution for Ukraine, but both are set to miss it.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused China of helping Russia disrupt a global peace conference in Switzerland. Speaking at the Shangri-La defence forum in Singapore, Asia's premier security conference, on Sunday, Mr Zelenskyy said China is pressuring other countries and their leaders not to attend the 'Summit on Peace in Ukraine', scheduled for 15-16 June.
'Time is running out, and the children are growing up in the Putin-land where they are taught to hate their homeland,' he said. In Ukraine, emergency power shutdowns have been imposed in most of the country except for three regions, a day after Russia launched large-scale attacks on energy infrastructure and claimed it made gains in the eastern separatist province of Donetsk. Saturday's drone and missile attacks on energy targets injured at least 19 people.
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