Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited Donald Trump to visit his country ahead of any deal with Russia to end the war.
“Please, before any kind of decisions, any kind of forms of negotiations, come to see people, civilians, warriors, hospitals, churches, children destroyed or dead,” Zelensky said in an interview for CBS’s 60 Minutes programme.
The interview was recorded before a Russian missile hit the city of Sumy, killing 34 people and injuring 117 others.
Russia has not commented. Trump said he had been told it was a mistake, without specifying whether this admission came from Moscow. Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, accused Russia of committing a war crime.
Asked about the attack, the US president said it was “terrible” and that he had been “told they made a mistake”, but did not elaborate.
Earlier, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, retired Lt-Gen Keith Kellogg, said the attack had crossed “any line of decency”.
However, it remains to be seen if Trump will accept Zelensky’s invitation.
