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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells DW he would meet his Russian counterpart if both were invited to the G20 in Miami.

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00:00Mr. President, thank you very much for doing this.
00:02You've spent two days here in Canada meeting the Canadian leadership.
00:07Let's talk about the deliverables.
00:09So, we spent not two days, we are very quick.
00:13We spent a little bit more than 24 hours.
00:17But really, it's important to be here.
00:20It's not just an invitation from Prime Minister Carney.
00:23So, we signed the document which brings us to 100-year strategic partnership.
00:28This is important because it's partnership in different directions.
00:32From security, financing, energy, very important energy,
00:39veteran policy, and culture, and relationships, and humanitarian issues.
00:44So, it's a global decision, a really historical decision,
00:47and I'm happy that we have it.
00:49Then we signed the pre-agreement, big agreement, drone deal with Carney.
00:56We will produce, and the co-production will be in Ukraine and in Canada,
01:01between different companies.
01:04Already, three companies.
01:05Ukrainian companies signed it yesterday.
01:09The co-production with Canadians, and I'm very happy.
01:13My congratulations to our company.
01:15But we have hundreds of companies, and this is just first steps.
01:18We will, now we will have a drone deal, and we will move quicker.
01:23And the last version of a big drone deal will be ready in 9-10 days.
01:29So, we moved it quicker because it was, I mean, we had to wait for 3-4 months.
01:35And by two leaders, we can move it quicker.
01:39And this is very good.
01:40Then, what is very important, the program Pearl, every time,
01:45it doesn't matter who we involved or not,
01:48but every time we have big deficit with financing.
01:51With fundings for Pearl program.
01:53Pearl program just for HIMARS and Patriot missiles, Pact-2, Pact-3.
01:59So, Karni, Prime Minister, always supported and supports this program.
02:06Then, yesterday, we made a decision about 350 million for missiles,
02:12especially for Patreon.
02:14And this is great decision, important decision.
02:18This is all what I'm doing now in Canada, before it in Norway,
02:23and before it in different countries.
02:25We speak about air defense.
02:27This is actually, I mean, the biggest priority.
02:30Mr. President, but speaking of Patriots,
02:32where are you going to get enough Patriots for this winter?
02:35Winter is coming.
02:36We know that Russians just today targeted Ukrainian gas stations,
02:40among other civilian targets.
02:42What do you need from the Europeans and what do you need from the Americans?
02:45I can tell you very openly what we need.
02:47So, Russia produces for today 140 ballistic missiles per month.
02:54So, according to the rules of NATO,
02:56if you want to destroy 140, you need 280.
03:01One to two.
03:03280 missiles.
03:04You will never have 280 missiles per month.
03:07And between us, it's a huge challenge to have 100 missiles per month.
03:13This is what I want.
03:14I want to have 100, 120 for these difficult months, especially cold months.
03:20We will see how many months of this winter, I mean, this cold months will be.
03:26So, I don't know.
03:27One, two, three.
03:28We don't know.
03:29Yes, this is a really big challenge.
03:32So, we can get it from the United States, from stocks, from the production.
03:37From production, it's not, I mean, it's not about United States.
03:41They have political will to sell and to help, but the production is not too big.
03:48So, it means that stocks is a variant.
03:52Will Americans be ready to give us?
03:54I don't know.
03:55We will see.
03:56Also, Middle East.
03:57I have good relations, my personal relations.
04:00We have dialogue about it.
04:02I will not share where we are with this.
04:04And some package not very big from Europeans.
04:09This is the first part.
04:11How to live now?
04:12And we have to get these missiles.
04:15And we have to bring it to Ukraine.
04:17And all the Europeans who really support us, we need, they have to give as much as possible.
04:23With all respect to them, they have to give Ukrainians to save their lives.
04:28The second point is our system.
04:31Ukrainian, European, pan-European system.
04:34We call it Freya.
04:36The one that's called Freya.
04:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:37We call it Freya.
04:39And this is really…
04:41When is it going to be done?
04:42It's a big experiment, but real.
04:46And last some weeks, we can underline and be sure that this system will be done in Ukraine.
04:56The goal is to the end of December to have the first system to check it, how it works.
05:01Yes.
05:02And then go to production.
05:06But, you know, technically, it's really difficult because companies who are involved…
05:12It's the companies from 10 countries who are involved in Freya.
05:16Yes, they said that we need a dozen.
05:19So, usually, it's about 20 years to build this system.
05:23But we don't have 20 years.
05:24So, you need it right here and right now.
05:25We need it right now.
05:26Or yesterday.
05:27Even 20 months, we don't have.
05:30It's not about years.
05:31So, that's why we will work together quickly.
05:35And the main part of this system is the launcher and the missile.
05:40We have it.
05:41We have it.
05:42It's a Ukrainian production.
05:44So, I hope that we will have success.
05:46God bless.
05:47We will have it as quick as possible.
05:49President Zelensky, let's talk diplomacy for a second.
05:51Yeah.
05:51President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner just paid a visit to Kyiv
05:56for the first time ever since the war started.
05:59What do you think they specifically learned from this trip?
06:02And is there anything that them or President Trump still do not understand about this war?
06:09Look, I think that the day came is a good signal.
06:13It's important not to be only in Moscow to come to Kyiv.
06:17It's a respect to our people, first of all.
06:19The second point, I know we discussed it, we shared it between each other, with Steve
06:24and Jared, that really Ukraine with all these difficulties and challenges, air jets, drones,
06:32aerial bombs, and missiles, ballistics, but with all of these things, Ukraine now is much
06:38more stronger than last year on the battlefield.
06:44Russia losses, you know, 30,000 plus people per month.
06:48And this is a big prize for such moves, very slow moves on the battlefield.
06:56So that's why we think that we have now good position for negotiations.
07:01And also Americans, I know Americans shared their position with Russians.
07:07The second, the sword one, we discuss about energy, about grain, about how to make first steps of the escalation.
07:17Maybe somebody doesn't like the word ceasefire.
07:19It doesn't matter for me who loves it or who doesn't love.
07:23We love life.
07:24If we want peace, and that's why we speak.
07:28So, okay, you don't like the word ceasefire?
07:30Okay.
07:31Let's say a truth.
07:33Yes.
07:33Silence.
07:34It doesn't matter what can bring us to any kind of negotiations.
07:40So, energy and grain, this is step number one, what we can achieve.
07:45And the last one, if Americans invite Vladimir Putin to Miami for G20,
07:50I will come.
07:50Are you willing to come?
07:51Yes, of course.
07:52And what are you going to tell him straight to his face at one table?
07:55We have to come, we have to meet, to speak and make decisions.
07:59It's not about words, what I will tell him or what he want to tell me.
08:04It doesn't matter.
08:05It doesn't matter.
08:06Matters only result.
08:09Result matters.
08:10That's it.
08:11May I ask you the last, can I show you one thing?
08:14Five years ago.
08:14Yeah.
08:15We spoke in.
08:16Really?
08:17Yes.
08:17Five years ago.
08:18We spoke in San Francisco.
08:20In San Francisco.
08:21Yes.
08:22At Stanford.
08:23Great.
08:23Can you please tell me, what is the difference between this president and this president?
08:30It's difficult to say.
08:31I think you see everything.
08:33Everything.
08:34You've got like a little...
08:35I don't know.
08:35Everything on the face and in the eyes.
08:38The president of Ukraine, which is not under, not under attacks.
08:47I mean, not during the full-scale war.
08:51This president who speaks about absolutely about any reason, but doesn't speak about that.
09:01We need to stop Putin as quick as possible.
09:03So, are the priorities, are the life, are the Ukraine, but believe me, the same values.
09:11Thank you very much.
09:12Thank you so much.
09:14This video.
09:14Thank you very much.
09:15Thank you very much.
09:15Thank you, Ash

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