Zelenskyy calls for direct interviews with Putin in the midst of Trump’s peace efforts

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy published a statement renting President Donald Trump’s efforts to negotiate peace and calling for direct interviews with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“We see and support President Trump’s efforts to end the Russian War, to arrest murder and achieve a worthy and sustainable peace. We are grateful to everyone in the world who supports peace efforts and helps us protect from lives”, ” Zelenskyy wrote on x.

“We understand who makes decisions in Russia and which must end this war. The whole world understands this too. Ukraine calls to go beyond the exchange of declarations and technical meetings to talks between the leaders. The United States has proposed this. Ukraine supported it. It is necessary for the preparation of Russia,” added the Ukrainian leader.

The image represents Ukrainian President Zelenskyy represented with President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Fox News digital image)

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Trump also announced on Friday that he repositioned two nuclear submarines after a “very provocative” conversation with former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.

“Based on the very provocative declarations of the former president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the vice-president of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, I ordered that two nuclear submarines are positioned in the appropriate regions, in case these insane and inflammatory declarations are more than those that the words are not very important. Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Zelenskyy’s message comes when Putin has only one week to respect Trump’s deadline to end the war and a half. The acting American representative John Kelley announced the deadline during a briefing of the United Nations Security Council on “threats of international peace and security”.

Trump, who has always expressed his desire to end the war, recently said that Russia’s actions against Ukraine were “disgusting”.

“Russia and Ukraine must negotiate a cease-fire and lasting peace. It is time to conclude an agreement. President Trump said it was to be done by August 8. The United States is ready to implement additional measures to ensure peace.” Kelley said.

Kelley reiterated the support of the United States to the right of Ukraine to defend himself in the face of Russian attacks.

Emergency workers inspect a damaged car near the residential house on several floors which was ruined by a Russian missile on Thursday evening, killing 31 civilians including five children, in kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, August 1, 2025. (Photo / efrem lukatsky)

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“Our support for the defense of Ukraine cannot be compared to the supply of weapons and material to Russia, which allows Russia to continue its invasion and its large -scale occupation of the Ukrainian territory,” said Kelley. “Last week, we called on all the member states of the UN to help end the war by ceasing any support for the war efforts of Russia. We do it again today.”

The American diplomat explicitly named North Korea, China and Iran as countries that have helped Russia directly and indirectly. He said that even if Beijing did not directly provide Moscow weapons, it acted as a “decisive catalyst” in “being the most important supplier of the industrial war machine of Russia”.

Emergency services are striving to turn off a fire in a residential house destroyed by a Russian air strike on Kramatorsk, Ukraine on Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP photo / Yevhen Titov)

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It seems unlikely that Russia arrives at the negotiating table because it made a fatal strike against kyiv and its representatives at the UN seemed to double on Moscow’s desire to take up Ukraine.

“We are not trying to destroy (Ukraine), its culture or its identity. We would like Ukrainian (and) Russian cultures to coexist in this country, as it is before without any problem or conflict”, ” Russia’s mission to the UN wrote on X.

In the early hours of Thursday, Russia launched more than 300 drones and eight missiles that hit residential areas in kyiv. On Friday, Ukraine cried after 31 years was killed in the strike, which was the deadliest air attack led by Moscow this year. The number of deaths includes five children, one of whom was only two years old, According to Reuters. In addition, more than 150 people were injured, including 16 children.