Hundreds attend funeral of Iryna Tsybukh, who was killed in action last week in Kharkiv. What we know on day 831<\/p>\n
Almost 1,000 mourners gathered in central Kyiv on Sunday for the funeral of a high-profile journalist and volunteer combat medic who was killed in action last week<\/strong>. Iryna Tsybukh, known as Cheka, was a 25-year-old paramedic who was on rotation in Kharkiv. Last year while serving on the frontlines in the eastern Donetsk region, she wrote a farewell letter to be published in the case of her death. \u201cI am not sorry to die, because I am finally living the life I would like,\u201d it read in part.<\/p>\n Donald Trump risks being a \u201closer president\u201d<\/a> if he wins November\u2019s election and imposes a bad peace deal on Ukraine, Zelenskiy has said, saying it would mean the end of the US as a global \u201cplayer\u201d<\/strong>. In an interview with the Guardian in Kyiv<\/a>, Zelenskiy said he had \u201cno strategy yet\u201d for what to do if Trump returned to the White House, and that the former British prime minister Boris Johnson had approached him on his behalf.<\/p>\n Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged world leaders to come to a peace conference in Switzerland this month, and accused China<\/a> of discouraging attendance at the meeting<\/strong>. \u201cWe are disappointed that some world leaders have not yet confirmed their participation in the peace summit,\u201d Zelenskiy told delegates on the last day of the Shangri-La Dialogue forum in Singapore during an unscheduled appearance. US President Joe Biden has as yet given no indication he will attend the summit. Zelenskiy added: \u201cRegrettably, Russia, using Chinese influence on the region, using Chinese diplomats also, does everything to disrupt the peace summit. It is unfortunate that such a big, independent, powerful country as China is an instrument in the hands of Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n