Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticized a high-level international peace conference on Ukraine in June being planned for June in Switzerland. Russia will not be invited to the conference, but at the same time it will be clear that nothing can be decided without Moscow, Putin said at a meeting with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday, the Russian news agency Interfax reported. “And because we are not going there, people are now saying that we are refusing to negotiate. This is a real panopticon,” Putin asserted. On Wednesday, the Russian embassy in Bern said that Russia w…