Germany Hosts Ukraine Recovery Conference Ahead Of Swiss Peace Summit

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy shake hands at a press conference in Berlin on February 16.

Germany is hosting a conference on June 11 to gather support for Ukraine's recovery from the destruction wreaked by Russia's war, sending a new signal of solidarity with Kyiv at the start of a week of intense diplomacy. The two-day Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin, following up on a similar gathering in London a year ago, comes ahead of the Group of Seven summit of Ukraine's leading Western allies in Italy and a global peace summit in Switzerland this coming weekend.