Zelensky's sour invitation to Trump: 24 minutes

 

 

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Zelensky invites Trump: "Needs 24 minutes"  

Emil Forsberg  

Updated 21.03 | Published 17.41 Ukrainian 

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invites Donald Trump to Kiev.  

But it won't be a long meeting. 

- I will need 24 minutes, he says. In September, Donald Trump promised that he would resolve the Ukraine war in 24 hours if he was re-elected president of the United States.  

He never told how it would happen. 

- If I say how I would proceed, I lose all my negotiating cards, he said in an interview with Meet the press.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is not impressed by the outcome. Volodymyr Zelensky.  

Volodymyr Zelensky. Photo: Anna Tärnhuvud  

- What should I say? He is welcome here. President Biden was here too, I think he understood certain details that you can only understand when you are here, he told NBC. 

"He cannot make peace"  

However, Zelensky says that no longer sitting with Trump is needed.  

- If he comes here, I will need 24 minutes, no more. It takes 24 minutes to explain to President Trump that he cannot manage this war in that time frame. He cannot make peace because of Putin, he says.  

When asked if Trump would support Ukraine if he is re-elected as president, Zelensky says: 

- I don't know, I really don't know.  

 

Donald Trump. Photo: Seth Wenig/AP