Putin slams 'pointless' meet as Zelensky presses West

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Ukraine's statehood could suffer an "irreparable blow" if the pattern of the conflict continued, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged political and business leaders facing conflict fatigue in the West to offer aid in Davos, Switzerland.

Putin made the comments a day after Switzerland agreed to host a global meeting later this year at the request of Zelensky.

Putin dismissed "so-called peace formulas" being discussed in the West and Ukraine and what he called the "prohibitive demands "they entailed.