Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the war with Russia should be frozen along current battle lines before the two sides can enter into peace negotiations, even as Vladimir Putin continues to demand that Ukraine cede the entire Donetsk region in the east to Russia.

Zelenskiy spoke in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press With Kristen Welker, conducted after his meeting at the White House Friday with President Donald Trump and broadcast on Sunday.

“I understand that we have to finish this war, and begin this finishing from the place where soldiers stay, from the contact line,” Zelenskiy said. “If we want to stop this war and to go to peace negotiations urgently and in diplomatic way, we need to stay where we stay, not to give something additional to Putin.”

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