US President Joe Biden has not yet confirmed whether he will attend the upcoming peace summit in Switzerland.
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00:00Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the absence of President Biden at an upcoming
00:05peace summit in Switzerland would be a gift to Putin.
00:08It's unclear if the US President will personally show up as the event clashes with a campaign
00:12fundraiser.
00:13Zelensky was in Belgium for an announcement with Prime Minister Alexander De Croo of 30
00:18F-16 fighter jets by 2028 and 1 billion euro of military aid this year.
00:24But there are restrictions as many Western nations do not want their weapons used on
00:28Russian territory.
00:29Everything which is covered by this agreement is military material, military equipment that
00:37is to be used by the Ukrainian defence forces and it is to be used on the Ukrainian territory.
00:44This is the agreement that we made.
00:48Zelensky says Putin is doing everything to undermine the peace summit, including announcing
00:52he's ready to talk about a truce, but only based on the territory he's stolen since the
00:57war.
00:58The Ukrainian President also described how damaging it is that Western countries insist
01:02on military weapons only being used on Ukrainian and not Russian territory as it gives Russia
01:07an advantage.
01:28Zelensky says Putin is doing everything to undermine the peace summit, but only based
01:43on the territory he's stolen since the war.
01:50Zelensky says Putin is doing everything to undermine the peace summit, but only based
01:57on the territory he's stolen since the war.
02:10President Zelensky says he wants peace, that Ukraine needs the war to end as it kills thousands
02:14of its civilians, but he says he needs arms to do that and any peace has to be a just
02:20peace and not one imposed by Russia after the territorial conquest of his country.
02:25Shona Murray, Euronews, Brussels.