Zelenskyy says Ukraine won't enter peace talks with Russia until it has security guarantees

Zelenskyy says Ukraine won't enter peace talks with Russia until it has security guarantees

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine won't enter peace talks with Russia until it has security guarantees against another offensive.

Zelenskyy added Friday's contentious spat with President Donald Trump was “not good for both sides”.

But Zelenskyy said that Trump – who insists Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to end the three-year grinding war – needs to understand that Ukraine can't change attitudes toward Russia on a dime.

"I just want to be honest, and I just want our partners to understand the situation correctly, and I want to understand everything correctly. That's about us not to lose our friendship," he said in an interview to Fox News.

Zelenskyy thought the confrontation was pre-planned. Instead, he said it "was just a really tough situation because we've been very open, very direct."

"When they, for example, say that Ukraine is almost destroyed, that our soldiers run away, that they are not heroes, that Ukraine lost millions of civilians, that his president is dictator. What is the reaction? It's not about me. The reaction is that, where is our friendship between Ukraine and the United States? This is [the] feeling," he added.

With inputs from agencies