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- Zelenskyy rejects Putin invitation: 'He can come to Kyiv'</p>
<p>CHRIS BOCCIASeptember 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM</p>
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<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday declined Russian President Vladimir Putin's suggestion he come to Moscow to negotiate a diplomatic settlement, addressing the proposal for the first time in an interview with ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz for "This Week."</p>
<p>"He can come to Kyiv," Zelenskyy said. "I can't go to Moscow when my country's under missiles, under attack, each day. I can't go to the capital of this terrorist."</p>
<p>Putin "understands this," he told Raddatz.</p>
<p>Zelenskyy and Raddatz toured and sat down at the site of an American-owned manufacturing plant in western Ukraine that was the recent target of a Russian missile attack.</p>
<p>Zelenskyy said repeatedly that Putin doesn't seek a meeting with him as he continues to prosecute the war in Ukraine.</p>
<p>The Russian president on Wednesday said "he has never been against meeting with Zelenskyy."</p>
<p>"If Zelenskyy is ready, then let him come to Moscow," Putin said. "This meeting will take place."</p>
<p>ABC News - PHOTO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks with Martha Raddatz of ABC News.</p>
<p>Watch more of the Zelenskyy interview Sunday morning on "This Week."</p>
<p>MORE: Foreign troops in Ukraine would be considered 'legitimate targets' to Russia, Putin says</p>
<p>President Donald Trump has made a meeting between the two leaders a priority in his efforts to broker a peace deal.</p>
<p>"Ultimately, I'm going to put the two of them in a room," he told Fox News in August.</p>
<p>EPA/Shutterstock - PHOTO: Russia President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Aug. 19, 2025 and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington, Aug. 18, 2025.</p>
<p>MORE: Russia issues warning as European leaders, Zelenskyy speak to Trump from Paris</p>
<p>Trump made a trilateral meeting between leaders of the U.S., Russia and Ukraine the goal of his summit in Alaska last month with Putin, and later said a bilateral meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy would happen after the Ukrainian leader came to the White House.</p>
<p>"A tri would happen," the president maintained last week in an interview with The Daily Caller. "A bi, I don't know about," he said.</p>
<p>ABC News - PHOTO: President Zelenskyy and ABC's Martha Raddatz tour a manufacturing plant in western Ukraine that was attacked by Russia.</p>
<p>MORE: Key takeaways from Trump and Zelenskyy's meeting, pivotal talks with European leaders</p>
<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said this week it was "clear" that a bilateral between Putin and Zelenskyy would not take place.</p>
<p>ABC News - PHOTO: President Zelenskyy sits down with Martha Raddatz, ABC News' Chief Global Affairs Correspondent and co-anchor of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."</p>
<p>In the Friday interview with "This Week" co-anchor Raddatz, Zelenskyy said Putin's offer was intended to "postpone the meeting," insisting that he, Zelenskyy, was "ready for the meeting" in "any kind of format."</p>
<p>Putin is "playing games with the United States," Zelenskyy told Raddatz.</p>
<p>Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on X this week pointed to seven countries -- Austria, the Holy See, Switzerland, Türkiye, and three Gulf states -- which he said were ready to host peace talks that Zelenskyy would attend.</p>
<p>"If a person doesn't want to meet during the war, of course, he can propose something which can't be acceptable by me or by others," Zelenskyy told Raddatz.</p>
<p>ABC News' Julia Cherner contributed to this report.</p>
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