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Failure to negotiate will mean 'a third world war', Zelenskiy says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that he believes a failure to negotiate the end of Russia’s invasion will mean “a third world war”.

In an interview with CNN on Sunday, Zelenskiy said that he’s “ready for negotiations” with Russian President Vladimir Putin but warned that if they fail “that would mean that this is a third World War.”

"I’m ready for negotiations with him. I was ready for the last two years. And I think that without negotiations we cannot end this war.
 

I think that we have to use any format, any chance in order to have a possibility of negotiating, possibility of talking to Putin. But if these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third World War.”

Zelenskiy added that if Ukraine “were a Nato member, a war wouldn’t have started.”