According to the Russian diplomat, Switzerland is not a suitable platform for a peace conference. Like, she has already lost her neutral status.
She is not a neutral party at all, she has turned from neutral to openly hostile,” Lavrov complained.
He also rejected Ukraine’s peace formula and said that he respected China’s proposal.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping during At a recent meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, he said that China supports holding a peace conference on Ukraine, but with the participation of Russia. Beijing traditionally called the Russian-Ukrainian war the “Ukrainian crisis.”
Recall that Moscow stated that it would not participate in the peace summit in Switzerland, even if it was invited.
However, no one began to invite Russia. At the same time, Zelensky does not exclude the possibility of participation of the aggressor country in the second summit.
According to the head of the Presidential Office Andrei Yermak, at the first summit the countries will develop a joint plan based on the Ukrainian formulas of the world. And already at the second meeting they can invite representatives of Russia and show them this plan if the one who at that time will represent the aggressor country really wants the end of the war and a return to a just world.
President Zelensky himself stated that communication with the Russian side will occur only at the level of intermediaries, as was the case with the grain agreement. Then Türkiye, the UN and Ukraine developed a plan and showed it to Russia.