Zelenskyy: Only by visiting Ukraine will Trump understand who the aggressor is and who must be pressured

In an address marking the fourth year of Russia's full-scale invasion, delivered near a public memorial in Kyiv with flags and photographs of fallen soldiers, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressed the importance of a visit by the US president to Ukraine so that he could understand that pressure must be applied to Russia.

"I know for certain: only by coming to Ukraine, and seeing with one's own eyes our life and our struggle, feeling our people and the enormity of this pain – only then can one understand what this war is really about. And because of whom. Who the aggressor is here and who must be pressured," Zelenskyy said in the address.

Zelenskyy added that Ukraine is defending life, stressing that "this is not a street fight" but "an attack by a sick state on a sovereign one".

"Putin is this war. He is the cause of its beginning and the obstacle to its end. And it is Russia that must be put in its place. So that there can be real peace," Zelenskyy said.

In the past, US President Donald Trump compared Ukraine and Russia to two little children fighting.

In response, Zelenskyy said: "We are not kids with Putin at the playground in the park. He is a murderer."