(1 Feb 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv – 1 February 2025
1. Various of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walking into meeting room and shaking hands with Ukraine News Director Susie Blann (R) and Ukraine correspondent Samya Kullab (L) of The Associated Press
2. Various of Zelenskyy speaking with reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine:
(Responding to additional question about further talks with the new US administration)
"In my opinion, we need more to achieve a result. I understand that we have a common desire for this war to end. Ukrainians want this more than anyone else in the world. Because the war is ours, and the victims are ours, our people, our independence and all this is under constant threat, constantly under attack, under missile strikes. You know all this. That’s why (we need) more contacts, work more closely, build an effective plan and then move on to diplomatic talks with the enemy, with Putin, with Russians."
4. Wide of reporters listening to Zelenskyy
5. Mid of camera
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine:
(Responding to question about reports of likely talks between Presidents Trump and Putin and whether he would see this as a betrayal, and whether it would strain Ukraine-US relations)
"Putin can make the whole world feel that they have lost, and it will be a reality. Because he can have Ukraine not defeated, but he can beat the whole world. Show that he was right. In what way? Impunity. To show that compromises were found with him. It will mean that anyone can act like this. And it will be a signal to other leaders of the big countries who think about it. They think about what Putin did to Ukraine, they think about something similar, but they have not yet been able to decide. They didn’t have the courage to do it. And I think it’s very dangerous. I think if there are direct talks between America and Russia about Ukraine without Ukraine, it is very dangerous."
7. Reporters listening to Zelenskyy
8. Cutaway of hand
9. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine:
(Responding to question about what direct talks Zelenskyy or members of his team had with US President Donald Trump or the administration since the inauguration?)
"We had several contacts, on the level of his special envoy… (special US envoy Keith) Kellogg, (Trump’s pick for national security adviser, Michael) Waltz, and the vice poresident also had contact with my chief adviser, the head of the office. There are some contacts. They were also very good, but still, it was all about general things. More detailed agreements may be between me and President Trump. I think this is very important. We need to work more on this. I understand that he is now focused on domestic issues. He promised it to his voters. This is his personal right. And I understand all of this. The time for the international agenda will come."
10. Zelenskyy’s hands moving
11. Wide of Zelenskyy speaking
12. Close-up of Ukrainian flags
13. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine:
(Regarding the expected visit of special US envoy Keith Kellogg to Ukraine)
“Honestly, I don’t know the exact date. It is important for us that this happens in the coming weeks, the nearest dates. This is important to us. I think all this will happen."
14. Cutaway of reporter’s hands
15. Reporters listening
16. Flag
17. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine:
18. Wide of Zelenskyy talking to reporters
19. Camera
20. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine:
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