Zelenskiy, dragged into Trump impeachment drama, faces a tougher challenge: Putin
MOSCOW - Volodymyr Zelenskiy looked up from his treadmill and addressed the people of Ukraine.
"Some say that it's impossible to have a dialogue with Putin," he said, "but without dialogue it's like we're on a treadmill - we are running forward, but not moving."
Days before his first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine's president promised his war-battered nation of 43 million that he would not betray them to the enemy.
"This meeting is already a victory for Ukraine," Zelenskiy said in the video, recorded as he worked out and then posted on his Facebook page.
Zelenskiy will meet Putin in Paris on Monday to resume peace talks aimed at ending Ukraine's war with Russian-backed separatist militias in its
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