World leaders to attend Ukraine peace summit – after Putin sets Russia’s conditions for ceasefire

Families of Ukrainian soldiers who have disappeared on the battlefield have travelled half way across Europe to witness an international peace summit aimed at ending the war. World leaders including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and France’s Emmanuel Macron are among those representing the 90 or so states participating in the event in Switzerland this weekend. It comes as Ukrainian defenders continue to sustain heavy attacks from Russian forces, despite blunting a major assault on the city of Kharkiv in recent weeks. On Friday, an attack on Russia’s Belgorod region – just across the border from Ukraine -…