‘A waste of time without Russia’: Saudi Arabia pulls out of Ukraine peace summit; Kremlin mocks Zelenskyy over setback

Saudi Arabia will reportedly not attend the Ukraine peace summit, which Switzerland is hosting on June 15-16. German news agency dpa reported that Saudi Arabia will stay away from the conference as Russia has not been invited. This is a major blow to the Ukrainian president after China, which also declined an invitation to the event. The Kremlin mocked Volodymyr Zelensky and called the summit a ‘waste of time’. For more, see International News