Volodymyr Zelenskyy

“No. Um first of all, uh diesel exports have no impact. The volume of diesel exports is so negligible uh from Russia that it has zero impact on prices in the United States of America. That is totally false information.”

“But President Trump can't reach an agreement with Putin on this. Putin refuses him an energy ceasefire. And so the president decided to pin this problem not on Putin, but on me.”

“Trump can bring Putin to the negotiating table very easily. Because he needs to the way he talks about me, President Trump, he needs to adopt that kind of rhetoric about Putin.”

“So I said, okay. you can't force Putin to stop the war and make an energy truce, give me air defense missiles. I won't fire at anyone. I'll protect our energy sector.”