Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his willingness to meet with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Budapest. In an interview with ABC, the Ukrainian president compared Putin to Hamas and asked the US for Tomahawk missiles.
“If we really want to have a fair and lasting peace, we need both sides of this tragedy. How will an agreement be reached about us without us?”, he argued in an interview with ABC recorded on Friday and broadcast today.
For this reason, asked if he would try to be in Budapest, Zelensky revealed that he told Trump, with whom he met on Friday in Washington, that he is ready.
Although expressing interest in a face-to-face meeting with the Russian leader, Zelensky said that Putin “is similar, although stronger, to (terrorist) Hamas”, commenting on the possibilities of Trump reaching an agreement for the war in Ukraine like the one he achieved to stop the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
“It’s good that President Trump didn’t say ‘no’ (to the delivery of the missiles), but to this day he hasn’t said ‘yes’ either,” said Zelensky.
When asked about the possibility of ceding territories to end the war, the Ukrainian leader argued that in order to stop the conflict and “go to peace negotiations urgently, through diplomacy” it is necessary to “not give any more to Putin”.
