US president and Ukrainian president to sit down after they arrive for anniversary of D-day landings in France, White House confirms
Kyiv on Wednesday welcomed an announcement from Washington that US vice-president Kamala Harris will attend an upcoming summit on Ukraine, despite earlier urging president Joe Biden’s participation, reports Agence France-Presse . Ukraine hopes to win broad international backing at the meeting later this month in Switzerland for its vision of the terms needed to end Russia’s war. Moscow has not been invited to attend the meeting.
“It is important news that US vice-president Kamala Harris has been confirmed to participate in the peace summit to be held on 15-16 June in Switzerland,” the head of the president’s office, Andriy Yermak, said in a statement on social media. AFP reports that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy had earlier said that if Biden were to snub the summit it would be like “applauding” Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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