Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says it is "not very pleasant" that US President Donald Trump spoke to Russia's Vladimir Putin "first". Speaking the day after Trump spoke to both the Russian and Ukrainian leaders, Zelensky says Moscow should only be invited to talks "after a plan to stop Putin has been worked out". Trump's conversation with Putin has shocked many European leaders who are now fearful that they and Kyiv could be cut out of any eventual negotiations.
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00:00Yes, we have already had three talks with President Trump, and so I do not accept this call that it was a priority that he first spoke with Russia, although it is not very pleasant in any case, because you know how the Ukrainian society, how all of us, Europeans, react that first of all Ukraine, and nothing can be about Ukraine without Ukraine.
00:27But the meetings, for us, the priority is Ukraine-America, and only after such meetings, after working out a plan on how to stop Putin, I think it is fair to speak with the Russians.