Bloomberg Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said taking back Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, as well as the country’s long-occupied eastern Donbas region are conditions for bringing the nine-month war to an end. “A simple ceasefire won’t do the trick,” Zelenskiy said in a video interview at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore. “Unless we liberate our ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping confronted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Group of 20 summit, accusing him of leaking details of a private meeting — an unusually candid glimpse of Xi’s interactions with other world leaders. “Everything we discussed was leaked to the newspapers. That’s not appropriate, and that’s not the way our conversation was conducted, right?” Xi ...

Bloomberg Singapore’s prime minister-in-waiting said the meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was “a good start” as Asian leaders greet diplomatic efforts between the top two economies with guarded optimism. Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, 49, said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait that the meeting between the two leaders was “important ...