Zelenskyy calls on Biden and Xi to join Ukraine peace summit

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has directly called on his US and Chinese counterparts to join his latest summit for peace in Ukraine. Speaking from Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine on Friday, Mr Zelenskyy announced a "global peace summit", co-hosted by Switzerland, starting on 15 June. He claimed 80 countries have already confirmed their attendance. But he said: "I am appealing to the global leaders of the world who are still outside the global efforts of the global peace summit. "To President Biden, the leader of the United States, and to President Xi, the leader of China, we do not want the UN...