Ukraine took the initiative to intensify preparations for the "peace summit", which is scheduled for June 15-16 this year. The forum will be held in the prestigious Swiss resort of Bürgenstock.
Invitations will be sent to more than 160 countries, although fewer will likely attend. According to the Ukrainian side, in such a wide circle of participants, they plan to discuss ways to achieve peace in Ukraine in view of President Volodymyr Zelenskyi's formula (or "peace formula"), which includes the demand for the withdrawal of all Russian troops to the borders of 1991 and the payment of reparations to Ukraine.
Russia was not invited to participate, but Kyiv and its Western allies hope for the arrival of the leaders of the leading countries of the Global South - in particular, Brazil, India and, especially, China.
The Ukrainian leadership declares that they want to gather as many states as possible and start work on some plan, which will later be presented by the "powerful countries" of Russia as a kind of ultimatum. That is why China's participation in the summit is so important for Ukraine, considering that it is China that currently has the greatest influence in the world on the Russian Federation.
However, experts suggest that the Swiss platform is necessary for Kyiv to strengthen the unity of the West and neutralize attempts to put forward alternative peace initiatives among Western countries.
Although if the leading countries of the "global south" do not come to the summit (or come, but do not support Zelensky's "peace formula"), the emergence of new plans that do not coincide with the "peace formula" will, perhaps, only be a matter of time.
