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Ukrainian President Zelensky fails to achieve key diplomatic objectives at Swiss summit

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TOPSHOT - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) looks at papers as he attends a plenary session at the Summit on peace in Ukraine, at the luxury Burgenstock resort, near Lucerne, on June 16, 2024. The two-day gathering brings together Ukrainian President and more than 50 other heads of state and government, to try to work out a way towards a peace process for Ukraine -- albeit without Russia. (Photo by URS FLUEELER / POOL / AFP)

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky (centre) looking at papers as he attended a plenary session at the summit on peace in Ukraine.

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Leaders and senior representatives from almost 80 countries have called for the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine to be the basis for any peace agreement to end

Russia’s two-year invasion.

Speaking on June 16 at the end of a two-day peace summit in Switzerland, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed the document adopted by the participants as the “first step towards peace” in his country.

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