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Donald Trump risks being a “loser president” if he wins the November election and imposes a bad peace deal on Ukraine, Zelensky said, saying it would mean the end of the US as a global “player”. In an Guardian interview in KyivZelensky said he “still doesn’t have a strategy” for what to do if Trump returns to the White House and that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reached out to him on his behalf.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on world leaders to come to a peace conference in Switzerland this month and blamed China to discourage meeting attendance. “We are disappointed that some world leaders have not yet confirmed their participation in the peace summit,” Zelensky told delegates on the final day of the Shangri-La Dialogue forum in Singapore during an unscheduled appearance. US President Joe Biden has not yet given any indication that he will attend the meeting. Zelensky added: “Unfortunately, Russia, using Chinese influence in the region, also using Chinese diplomats, is doing everything to derail the peaceful summit. It is unfortunate that such a large, independent, powerful country as China is a tool in Putin’s hands.

Meanwhile, Zelensky said he had a “very good” meeting with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Singapore. The meeting came after Washington decided partial removal of restrictions on the use of US-supplied weapons to strike Russia, which Zelensky hailed as a “step forward”. Austin had no comment.

After the conference in Singapore, Zelensky traveled to Manila for a meeting with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the press pool in Manila reported. No further details were available.

Ukraine imposed emergency power cuts across much of the country on Sunday, a day after Russia unleashed large-scale attacks on energy infrastructure. The shutdown was imposed in all but three regions of Ukraine after Saturday’s drone and missile attack on energy targets that injured at least 19 people. Ukraine’s state-owned power grid operator Ukrenergo said the outages affected both industrial and residential customers.

Russian forces have captured the village of Umanske in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.. The claim cannot be independently verified.

A local official in Belgorod was killed in a munitions detonation, while six people were injured in Ukrainian shelling of the southern Russian region, Belgorod’s governor said on Sunday. Igor Nechiporenko, deputy head of the administration of the Korochan district, died as a result of the detonation of ammunition, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced on Telegram.

Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, who fled Russia a decade ago for fear of persecution, could face criminal charges in Moscow for violating the Kremlin’s “foreign agents” law, the TASS news agency reported on Sunday.. Russian law enforcement officials, the state news agency reported, said there was “every reason” to bring charges against Kasparov, without providing further details. Russia added Kasparov to a list of individuals acting as foreign agents that includes dozens of critics of Vladimir Putin, shortly after the Russian president launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.