He pointed to the high casualties on both sides in the conflict, the deadliest on European soil since World War II.
“The whole thing is ridiculous. So, yeah, I’m going to do whatever I can,” Trump added.
Zelenskyy said in a post on X after meeting G7 leaders that Ukraine’s priorities were “clear”, including increasing the number of air defence missiles, a winter support package and strengthening pressure on Russia.
“It’s great that everybody understands that Russia is not winning, and we have to push Putin to end this war,” the Ukrainian leader said at a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Zelenskyy on Monday urged a “decisive and substantive” response from the G7 leaders after the latest wave of Russian strikes, which killed at least 11 people, while Ukrainian officials said the attacks also caused a fire at a landmark Kiev cathedral.
He revealed Putin had rejected an offer of a meeting at the G7 but said he had also suggested to Trump that he could meet Putin in the United States.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the United Kingdom is imposing a raft of new sanctions against Russia, including on tankers that transport LNG, in a bid to pressure Moscow into halting the war against Ukraine.
“Working with our G7 allies, we will continue to increase the pressure on Putin and his circle of collaborators until Russia’s war machine is brought to a halt and peace returns to our continent,” said Starmer.
Carney, meanwhile, said Canada was announcing new sanctions against 160 entities linked to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, used to dodge Western sanctions on Russian fossil fuels and other goods.
