Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an exclusive interview Friday with Newsmax, said he believes President Donald Trump can strongly push Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the bloodshed in Ukraine, but it won’t be easy.

“Trump can do it,” Zelenskyy told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” from the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. “And Europe will help him a lot if he will allow them. I think Trump can do it. He’s strong. He’s smart. If he will understand — or I mean, maybe he understands, but I don’t see it, I don’t hear it, but maybe it will be. Or maybe it’s his plan, I don’t know.

“But he can do it [by putting] on Putin all the sanctions. He can then give us all the [aid] that he can … and of course, when we speak about just peace for Ukraine, we understand that we don’t have power to push them out from all our territory. We have to push them out with diplomacy and with our partners, but not to lose.”

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