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00:00 A surprise guest at the security forum in Singapore bringing together defence chiefs
00:05 from across the Asia-Pacific.
00:07 Volodymyr Zelensky sought to rally support for an upcoming peace conference in Switzerland
00:12 and accused China of trying to sabotage attendance.
00:16 "The war will last longer if Russia is supported by China.
00:24 This is bad for the whole world.
00:29 To disrupt the peace summit, to take steps to reduce attendance, doing everything to
00:35 prevent the presence of certain leaders at the peace summit by putting pressure on them.
00:41 This definitely does not bring us closer to peace."
00:46 Through the summit, Kiev hopes to win broad international backing it needs to end Russia's
00:51 war.
00:52 Zelensky says more than a hundred countries and organisations had signed up to the conference,
00:56 set to be held in Lussian on the 15th and 16th of June.
01:00 Beijing says it would be difficult for it to join if Russia is not invited, citing the
01:05 need for equal participation of both parties.
01:08 "There's a gap between the meetings, arrangements and what China stands for.
01:12 We'll continue to promote peace talks in our own way, maintain communications with
01:16 all parties and jointly discuss conditions for settling the Ukraine crisis."
01:21 While China has repeated its neutral stance and denies it supplies Russia with weapons,
01:26 Washington says Beijing has been providing key components used to build up Russia's
01:31 war arsenal, with some 70 percent of the machine tools and 90 percent of the microelectronics
01:36 Russia imports coming from China.
01:38 (laughs)