Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says the war with Russia is
likely to end more quickly. Under the presidency of
Donald Trump. The US president elect said often during
his campaign that he would rapidly end the conflict in
Ukraine without giving specifics. In a Ukrainian radio interview
aired on Saturday. Zelensky also said Kyiv must do
everything so that this war ends next year and through
diplomatic means. He was commenting at a decisive moment
following Trump's win and grinding battlefield games by Russia.
He said US law prevented him from meeting Trump before
his inauguration on January 20th with the policy of the
team that will head the White House. Now he
said the war will end sooner. However, Zelensky
said Russian President Vladimir Putin was not interested in agreeing
to a peace deal and argued it was convenient for
Moscow to sit down to talk while continuing to fight
. Moscow's ambassador to the Un in Geneva said on
Thursday, Russia would be open to negotiations an end
to the war if they were initiated by Trump.
Though he added that these would have to acknowledge realities
on the ground. Moscow uses this phrase to mean
Ukraine would have to cede four regions that Russian forces
have partly occupied and that Russia has claimed in their
entirety. Zelensky has repeatedly said since Russia's full scale
invasion in February 2022 that peace cannot be established until
all Russian forces are expelled and all territory captured by
Moscow is returned. However, a return to Ukraine's
internationally recognized borders was not mentioned in the victory plan
that he presented last month on the battlefields of eastern
Ukraine. Russia is now advancing at the fastest rate
since the war's earliest days. In 2022 Zelensky conceded
that the situation there was difficult and that Russia was
making gains.