World leaders call for just peace in Ukraine, but Russia's absence weighs heavily

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European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen (left), Swiss president Viola Amherd (centre) and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy attend a joint press conference after the Summit on Peace in Ukraine in Switzerland on Sunday. Photograph: Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images Bloomsday atop Switzerland's Bà¼rgenstock mountain. Brown cows nod in manicured meadows while world leaders assure Ukraine it will wake from its historical nightmare. After more than 800 days of conflict, the conclusions of a two-day gathering of 100 countries and international organisations echoed a line from Ulysses worth reading twice: "With will will we withstand." The mountaintop Swiss gathering was…