With much of the globe's eyes and international press focused on the US domestic political situation in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has just made an unprecedented announcement.

He said Monday that a second Ukraine peace summit should include Russian representation. It is a remarkable development that he so much as stated the possibility, even if it doesn't actually materialize, given he's long been vehemently against any level of negotiations with Moscow so long as Putin is still in power.

"I believe that Russian representatives should be at the second summit," Zelensky told a press conference in Kiev, and outlined preparatory work for another summit.