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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is keeping expectations low for the international peace conference in Switzerland aimed at helping chart a path toward the end of the war in Ukraine. “This is a diplomatic seedling that we are watering so that it can grow,” he said in an interview with German public broadcaster ZDF on Saturday morning. The meeting, which opens later on Saturday, is taking place on Ukraine’s initiative and President Volodymyr Zelensky is attending. Russia has not been invited. The German chancellor spoke ahead of his departure from the three-day G7 summit near the southern Italian …

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