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We must force Putin to accept Zelenskyy for negotiations and as the president of a sovereign nation. This must be one of our conditions for negotiations,
They want us to believe that the Ukrainian government is not capable of negotiating. We must not fall into this trap,
Putin, his foreign minister Lavrov and some propagandists say that they do not want to negotiate with Ukraine. They are talking to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz or the American president, but not to the Ukrainians,
The dishonesty that has existed is that we somehow led people to believe that Ukraine would be able not just to defeat Russia but to push them all the way back to what the world looked like in 2012 or 2014, before the Russians took Crimea,
Both sides are paying a heavy price for this [war], both sides have an incentive for this conflict to end... it's not going to end with the maximalist goals of either side, and there's going to have to be a lot of hard work done. And I think only the United States, under the leadership of President Trump, can make that possible. It won't be easy and it will take some time, but it's something I know he's strongly committed to seeing happen,
If there is a desire to negotiate and find a compromise solution, let anyone conduct these negotiations,
You can negotiate with anyone, but because he is illegitimate, he has no right to sign anything. But if he wants to take part in the negotiations, I will allocate appropriate people who will conduct these negotiations,
he told Russian reporters
