Ukrainian President said he'd listen to former US President's ideas to end the war in Ukraine with "pleasure" but trod carefully around the issue during an interview at the Delphi Economic Forum.
The embattled Ukrainian leader's remarks came after reports that the Republican presidential candidate reportedly said if he were to be reelected, he would pressure Ukraine into a peace deal with"First and foremost those signals were on certain media platforms. I haven't heard that directly from Trump," Zelenskyy told CNN's Senior Correspondent Fred Pleitgen via video link from Ukraine.
Zelenskyy continued: "If I have such an opportunity I will with pleasure listen to them and then we can discuss the topic."that he had invited Trump to Ukraine "to see everything with his own eyes and draw his own conclusions." He said that Trump had privately conveyed interest in accepting the invitation to visit Ukraine.
"Now Russia begins hitting Kharkiv with aerial bombs. These are special guided bombs that destroy everything within hundreds of meters," Zelensky explained, calling it the "last of Putin's effective bets in this war." Zelenskyy also stressed that Ukraine is complying with the conditions imposed by Western countries over their supply of weaponry to Kyiv.
"It is not a secret that the condition of usage of Western weapons was the inability to attack Russian targets in Russian territory," he said. A firefighter gestures while spraying water inside a building at the site of a Russian attack, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 21, 2024. Around 30 cruise and ballistic missiles were shot down over Kyiv on Thursday morning, said Serhii Popko, the head of Kyiv City Administration. The missiles were entering Kyiv simultaneously from various directions in a first missile attack on the capital in six weeks.
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