Ukraine expects to involve more than 150 countries, including representatives of the Russian Federation, in the second Peace Summit, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said at a press conference on Tuesday, September 10.

"It is very important, and we have spoken about this many times, we continue this work, to involve representatives of Russia in the second summit and seat them at this table, making manipulation and lies impossible. This broad diplomatic table, where 100 plus countries will sit, we want these countries to be even more, so that it will be 150 plus countries that will demonstrate Russia's ability to negotiate peace or Russia's inability to negotiate peace. This will be demonstrated at this table," the Prime Minister emphasized.

He emphasized that in the case of direct negotiations with the Russians, they always deceive, they always manipulate, twist, distort facts, misinform.

"We have been through all this for 10 years, and today it is important to sit them down at the negotiating table and not give them space or room for manipulation, for lies, for distortion. And our goal is to prepare our partners, to coordinate that this work has begun during the first summit," Shmyhal said.

He noted that work is currently underway on 10 points of the peace formula in the initiative groups of countries that have taken such an initiative. It is expected that a joint decision will be reached on each point, which will form the basis of a joint memorandum after the second peace summit.

"The implementation of all 10 points of the peace formula based on the UN Charter is our very simple wish to our partners on how to end this war. Manipulations regarding whether to freeze the front line, then negotiate, and so on - obviously, they are understandable to each of us. Russia's desire to freeze the front line, restore its army, continue their offensive after some period, pass this war on to our children, the next generations, is understandable. This does not suit us. We are interested in a full-fledged peace, absolutely... Sovereignty, the borders of Ukraine, our membership in the EU, our membership in NATO, full protection and preventing a repeat of this war, preventing further escalation. This is what interests us, this is what we strive for, what we are working on, in fact, until the second peace summit, which, I hope, will take place this year," the Prime Minister emphasized.