KYIV, Ukraine, Dec 29, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr 
Zelensky said Monday that Russia's strikes on Ukraine and Vladimir Putin's 
domestic messaging on the war do not correspond to his "peaceful rhetoric" to 
US leader Donald Trump.

"On the one hand, he tells the president of the United States that he wants 
to end the war and that this is his desire," Zelensky told journalists.

"And on the other hand, he openly communicates in the media all his messages 
about being ready and wanting to continue the war -- he strikes us with 
missiles, openly talks about it, celebrates the destruction of civilian 
infrastructure, gives instructions to his generals about where to advance and 
what to seize, and so on."

Zelensky added: "In my view, these actions do not correspond to the 
supposedly peaceful rhetoric that he uses in dialogues with the president of 
the United States."