President Volodymyr Zelensky said he hoped to find paths to a “just peace” as soon as possible, as a first international summit on pathways to end Russia’s war in Ukraine opened Saturday.

More than 50 world leaders were joining Zelensky at the Burgenstock resort in Switzerland for a two-day peace summit.

Moscow rejected its invitation to attend the summit which Kyiv says is the modest groundwork for ending the conflict, now in its third year.

Zelensky said as the event began ‘’I believe that we will witness history being made here at the summit. May a just peace be established as soon as possible.

“Everything that will be agreed upon at the summit today will be part of the peacemaking process”.