Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he’s “ready” to sit down for peace talks in Budapest as he expressed doubts about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s willingness to end the more than three-year-long war in Ukraine.

“I’m not sure that Putin is ready just [yet] to finish this war,” Zelenskyy said during a pre-taped interview with NBC that aired on October 19. “I think that maybe he wants to come back with aggression.”

The Ukrainian president said that he believes Putin prefers to postpone “real peace negotiations” and is reluctant to meet with him because that would require agreeing to specific positions and potential concessions to end the war.

Zelenskyy then called for added pressure on the Russian leader, saying that Putin is “afraid of sanctions” and secondary s

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