US President Joe Biden is likely to skip the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland. Bloomberg writes about this, citing sources.

Vice President Kamala Harris and “leaders of other countries also plan to skip the meeting.” Scholz, Trudeau, and possibly Japanese Prime Minister Kishida will attend.

The publication writes that this decision emphasizes that Biden continues to shift into campaign mode. It also “reflects broader pessimism about the conference.”

Bloomberg's sources say that the conference will not achieve the goal of starting a peace process based on Kyiv's principles, but will focus on a narrow set of goals: nuclear security, prisoner exchange, etc.

Sources say that Russia is pushing the countries of the “global south” to stay away from the conference: Putin, Lavrov and others have met and called leaders of dozens of countries from India to the tiny Comoros Islands “with the obvious aim of preventing participation” in the conference.