Putin afraid of what peace summit can achieve: Zelenskyy

Ukraine's president said his Russian counterpart was scared of the June summit that was "capable of forcing Russia into peace."

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00:00Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin

00:07is afraid of what an upcoming international peace summit can achieve.

00:13Zelensky was speaking in the northeastern Kharkiv region where Russian forces have recently

00:18launched a renewed push.

00:23Missile strikes killed at least seven civilians and wounded 21 others on Thursday.

00:28The strike also hit the country's largest printing facility, destroying 50,000 books.

00:38Russia's Kharkiv push appears to be a coordinated new offensive and is stretching thin Ukraine's

00:43depleted ranks exhausted by more than two years of war.

00:49But the General Staff struck an upbeat note at a press conference on Friday saying the

00:54situation there was under control.