Zelensky says he's 'ready for negotiations' with Putin: 'If there is just 1% chance for us to stop this war, I think that we need to take this chance.'
Zelensky said last week that Russia's peace talk positions were beginning to"I am ready for negotiations with him. I was ready over the last two years and I think that...without negotiations we cannot end this war," Zelensky told CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS."
"If there is just 1% chance for us to stop this war, I think that we need to take this chance," he added. "We are losing people on a daily basis, innocent people on the ground. Russian forces have come to exterminate us, to kill us." "There are compromises for which we cannot be ready as an independent state," Zelensky said, adding that these include "any compromises related to our territorial integrity and our sovereignty.""We have to use any format, any chance in order to have a possibility of negotiating, possibility of talking to Putin. But if these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third World War.
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