World leaders gather at Ukraine peace summit, Russia absent issues an ultimatum for Kyiv surrender
Now world leaders are heading to the luxury Bergen stock resort in Switzerland for a 2 day summit on peace in Ukraine. Russia will not be there. On Friday, President Vladimir Putin again said that Ukraine would effectively need to surrender for there to be peace. Kiev and its ally the United States immediately rejected Russias conditions. Let's hear a bit more from our correspondent in Ukraine, Gulliver Crag. Well, I think that a lot of people in Ukraine are quite critical these days of. Game, particularly his chief of. Who is really the man behind the idea of this summit? But despite this, most experts think that the idea of holding this event, which is not really a peace summit in the traditional sense of the term, but more a summit designed at showing the world how many countries are on board with Volodymyr Zelensky's vision of peace, which of course involves Russia pulling all of its forces out of Ukraine. It's in a way more like a support for Ukraine summit, very, very much a priority for the Ukrainians to get as many countries as possible from the global. On Board and to have some kind of involvement from China. China is not taking part. And although the Swiss sides say they've got more than 92 delegations and half of them at least represented the level of heads of state or Heads of Government. Countries from the global S such as Indonesia and India are not represented. Brazil is sending its ambassador to Switzerland, which is the lowest possible diplomatic level to be represented. So on those terms, not a success. And there are people in Ukraine who have been very critical approach, taking on the role of foreign minister if you like, rather than leaving that to the professional diplomats because he has really taken on a huge amount of power in recent months. In recent days, the Ukrainians have scaled down their rhetoric a bit and talked about this summit as just a first step. They are hoping that they will get some kind of communique out of it that could serve as a basis for further negotiations to which they have said Russia might be invited. And they said today they going to focus on three elements of Volodymyr Zelensky's 10 point piece plan, probably the ones that the least controversial, which are nuclear security and the release of Ukrainian prisoners of war and Ukrainian children who have been deported to Russia. Families of those Ukrainian prisoners of war have also travelled to Birkenstock in Switzerland. To be present and to lobby for as much action as possible to be taken.