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Zelenskyy: "More pressure" needed on Putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that "more pressure" is needed to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table to end the war. The interview was taped on May 29.
May 31 (13:10)

TRANSCRIPT FOR: “ZELENSKYY SAYS "MORE PRESSURE" IS NEEDED TO GET PUTIN TO TABLE TO NEGOTIATE PEACE DEAL”

MARGARET BRENNAN:
00:10:32

Oh. So I don't know what will be in the Middle East, how you close to negotiations-- positive one, again, hope so. So I don't know, but I think that we need to see American negotiation group in Ukraine. They never been here. I think it's important not also for us. It's useful for them to understand, to see-- to see people-- that the life is going on. But we want to stop this war. It's been to stop Russia. They've been several times in Moscow. I said previously about it-- if they want to go this time to Moscow, they have to come to Kyiv, and then go to Moscow. I think it will be helpful. Before I let you go, I just want to come back to what you mentioned in regard to drone technology and this offer that you made to the United States. Is the deal progressing, or is it stalled? So we wanted very much to do the first drone deal with the United States, like with the full strategic partner. But the United States wanted to check all our types of drones. We accepted. I accepted this document-- this way how they wanted for us to train, to check, to use it in the sky, on the water-- because we have not only sky drones-- we have sea drones and et cetera. So I accepted this way, but we still didn't accept the drone deal, the big document. I hope that we are on the way, but we have already drone deals with some Middle East countries and we have already drone deals with some European countries. Now we're preparing the big drone deal with EU, and I hope that we will have such decisions with American partners. I count on it. You count on it? And you need to keep working with Silicon Valley and American technology companies on this? We want very much, yes, because American technological companies, they have a lot of different interesting AI technologies-- what we don't have. And we have a lot of things what they don't have, because our experience on the battlefield. I think this cooperation can be-- can be huge, and the most powerful in the world. So you know, we need to negotiate already, not to speak about it-- just to make steps and to do it as quick as possible. You need President Trump to say yes, it sounds like. Yes, we need President Trump to say yes. Our full interview with President Zelenskyy is available on our website, YouTube page, and our podcast.

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