An Exclusive Interview With Ukraine’s President Zelensky

We spoke about winter packages, how to defend our people, and energy ceasefire and food security. President Trump's idea is to mediate and put at the table of negotiations Putin and me, and it's not simple because one of us is not ready.

American partners raised this topic, and between us, before President Trump, it's time to time it's raising. We have to be strong, and we have to show Putin that he's not alone on this planet, even if it's his dream. If you don't want to attack energy, anything, energy supplies, petrol, diesel, refineries, gas, water supplies, then you have to stop here.

The situation on the battlefield is not successful for Putin, so he is not winning, and he is not losing because for him, human losses, it's not to lose.

I don't know if he doesn't want to know the details, or he knows the details, but it doesn't matter, he doesn't feel that he has to stop.

We have a chance to stop and end this war before the winter, if there is the will of the United States, especially of the president, and technologies. We need winter package, missiles for Patriots systems, this is important, very important to have everything now. I think that Putin said to President Trump he needs our territory, and he wants us to live out our territory, and this is the problem for us because we didn't do it at the very first day of the war.

It's a secret, we decided that we will not share that we had a meeting, it's too late, the cat's out of the bag.

We are thankful to his company, to SpaceX, and to Elon, we really had good connection for our people during these challenges with Starlink. The problem is that China is very close to such technologies, and they will share it with Russia, and they began to do it. North Korean soldiers will come to this war to get experience, to prepare the operators of drones, to learn new technologies, and then they will use it where there are their interests.

We wanted to create the anti ballistic system with cheap missiles, with our experience, and to give the licenses to other countries.

We think that in winter, end of this year, beginning next year, we will have the first system, just to try and how it will work.

The system is named Freya, and God bless, it will work.

No, he never asked me to withdraw support for the International Criminal Court, we never spoke about it.

I'm not sure that I really deal with the stress, we try to do our job in a way that you can continue after the war and live in your country. During the war, you have so many mistakes because you have to make hundreds of deals per day, not comfortable, very sensitive.

People give you energy to live, and there are people whom you hate, and they took all your energy, so I try to live for good people.