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Our top priority is bringing even more of our people home from captivity,
Zelenskyy's office said in messages online I think the president has this chance, and he’s strong, and I think that really he can push Putin to peace negotiations,
I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine, never,
Zelenskyy told moderator Kristen Welker while in Germany for the Munich Security Conference on Friday It will be very, very, very difficult,
There are risks that this can be Poland and Lithuania because we believe – we believe that Putin will wage war against Nato,
he said during the interview with Kristen Welker And even if I will look at the army of Russia, if they will see it that they, Russia, have 220 or 250 brigades, and Europe has 50. That is the answer. The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 per cent,
I said that [Putin] is a liar,
Zelenskyy recounted of his phone call to Trump We want the killing to stop, but we want to achieve a durable, lasting peace, not the kind of peace that’s going to have eastern Europe in conflict just a couple years down the road,
I trust President Trump because he's the president of the United States, because your people, your people voted for him, and I respect their choice, and I will work the President Trump with trust, which I have to the United States,
[I]t's out of constitution [unconstitutional] to recognize our occupied territory [as the] territory of Russia. We will never do it. It's not about – it's not about any negotiations. We will never speak about it,
said Zelensky in his interview Sunday Fundamentally, the goal is as President (Donald) Trump outlined it: We want the war to come to a close,
I think we need it urgently,
I don't see any way that a country in Russia's position could allow them, just in their position, could allow them to join NATO. I don't see that happening,
Trump added at a press gaggle The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement,
But of course I want to have real meeting, productive, without just words,
Even Crimea, we will never recognize it,
We can't rule out the possibility that America might say no to Europe on issues that threaten it,
Zelensky told the conference We believe that Putin will wage war against NATO, ... I don’t know they will want 30 percent of Europe, 50 percent, I don’t know. Nobody knows. But they will have this possibility.”
Ultimately ... Zelenskyy said, adding It can happen in summer, maybe in the beginning, maybe in the end of summer. I do not know when he prepares it,
There is no leader in the world who can really make a deal with Putin without us about us,
he said, speaking in English
