Zelenskyy to Trump: Put more pressure on Putin, 'not on me' - POLITICO

KYIV — Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants Donald Trump to turn up the heat on Vladimir Putin — and stop piling pressure on him to agree to a truce after more than four years of war.

The Ukrainian leader said his people were “tired,” during an exclusive interview in the presidential palace in Kyiv with Gordon Repinski for POLITICO and WELT, but morale was still high and they were not ready to accept Russia’s ultimatums on handing over vast tracts of land in the east of the country.

Zelenskyy urged European leaders to come up with a Plan B to secure Ukraine’s long-term funding, to find a way to work around what he called the “blackmail” of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is holding up a promised EU loan of €90 billion.