President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed optimism in an interview published Sunday that "strong" incoming US president Donald Trump will be able to force Russia into peace talks and end the war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview that President-elect Trump is “capable of stopping” Russian President Vladimir Putin and that he will be a key factor in the

Zelensky has said that achieving a just peace for Ukraine meant receiving solid security guarantees from its allies, joining the European Union and receiving an invitation to join the NATO alliance, a notion rejected by Moscow. “Naturally, any security guarantees without the United States are weak security guarantees for Ukraine,” he said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he thinks President-elect Donald Trump could be "decisive" in ending the nearly three-years-long war and dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin's demands.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says President-elect Donald Trump is "strong and unpredictable" and that he can not end the war in one day as claimed.

However, Zelenskyy said it won’t be possible to end the almost three years of war in one day, as Trump claimed during his election campaign he could do. “The ‘hot’ stage of the war can end quite quickly,