Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he hopes that the current crazy diplomacy and the high-risk disease period between Russia and Ukraine will be understood by Donald Trump, who is a real obstacle to a peace deal.

Zelenskyy told a small group of reporters in the office of the Kyiv Presidential Administration: "Trump needs to believe Putin is actually lying. We should try our best to solve this problem.

Zelenskyy said he would travel to Türkiye on Thursday whether he was attending talks at Putin or not.

Zelenskyy said he had arranged a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, but was ready to fly to Istanbul in Istanbul if the Russian leader showed up. "If Putin doesn't arrive and play the game, that's the last point when he doesn't want to end the war," he said on Tuesday.

Earlier, after Putin used an unexpected late-night Kremlin speech to call for direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations in Istanbul, Zelensky responded that he would wait for Putin in person in Türkiye on Thursday.

Trump is visiting Saudi Arabia, and he appears to be in the idea of ​​a three-way meeting with Putin and Zelenskyy and said on Monday: "I believe the two leaders will be there. I'm considering flying over."

Zelenskyy said he hopes Trump will indeed see him in Türkiye. "If Trump travels, it will also drive Putin's trip," he said. "Trump can really help. The situation on the scene is that the situation on the scene can provide important assurance."

Trump's Ukrainian envoy Keith Kellogg also proposed the potential of the tee summit. "It could be a great meeting...we hope President Putin will come, too, and then President Trump will be there." Kellogg, along with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, are also expected to be held in Turkey, according to reports.

However, there are few signs that Putin is ready to travel. Although he did not rule it out directly, the Kremlin comments suggest that Russia will send a low-level negotiating team to Istanbul.

"Our delegation will be there and will wait for the Ukrainian side," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia wanted to use any negotiations to resolve the "root cause" of the conflict, as Moscow saw, including Ukraine's "denial" and official inclusion of Russia into the territory of the Russian region, which implies that the rhetoric on both sides is still far away.

Zelenskyy said he believes there is no point in the ceasefire without the leader's consent.

"I want you to understand why I met Putin. We will not be able to reach a consensus on everything right now. It is impossible. We have different ways of living, different worldviews. But we have to find a way to end the war in some way." Zelenskyy said that if he and Putin can reach a consensus on a ceasefire, then lower groups can meet to start finalizing the details of the next step.

He pointed to previous talks in Saudi Arabia, when Americans acted as intermediaries between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations and were unable to agree to a lasting full ceasefire. "There is no signal from leaders or meetings from leaders, this format doesn't work," he said.

However, when forced, he refused to rule out the exclusion of sending a low-level delegation to Istanbul for negotiations. He said: "I don't know. I'm honest. Maybe it's American, maybe someone really wants to launch this format again. I don't know."

The round-trip diplomacy began with a tour of Kiev, after a symbolic military parade in Moscow, a match in Moscow has been held in 80 years since World War II. Four European leaders laid the final pass for Putin after talking to Trump on the phone, who should sign a 30-day ceasefire by Monday or face further sanctions. Putin rejected the final pass and instead offered talks in Istanbul without a ceasefire.

If no consensus was reached during any meetings held in Türkiye this week, the biggest question is whether Europeans can work with them to aggravate their plans to increase pressure on Moscow. Zelenskyy said he hopes that if Thursday's meeting has nothing, new sanctions will begin soon.

"I believe President Trump is not against the imposition of sanctions...I believe Congress will have the political will to vote for these sanctions. I believe Americans are very close to imposing them." He added that the consultation will be conducted in the coming days - "If you allow me, I will not say when and where" - in which Europeans will be introduced to the upcoming U.S. sanctions plan.

The Ukrainian president has been walking on diplomatic ropes in recent weeks as Keefe tries to keep the Trump administration company. Zelenskyy appeared to have had some success following a disastrous White House meeting in late February, turning the relationship back to a positive meeting last month at the funeral of Vatican Pope Francis.

When asked what he said to Trump won his victory, Zelenskyy refused to answer: "I won't tell you. I know why; I think, I know why we have such good things. But I can't say, I can't."

British and French officials have been talking to their Ukrainian counterparts since the White House collapse and provide guidance on how to build relationships with the U.S. government.

Zelenskyy said contact with European allies is closer and more frequent than ever, and French President Emmanuel Macron is one of the “two or three leaders or three leaders he often talks to him over the phone. “He has a very creative way…he’s a risky guy,” Zelenskyy said. Adventurers may be different people, but they all focus on the results. They didn't put themselves in everything else. ”

After visiting Turkey, Zelenskyy is expected to visit Albania on Friday for a meeting of European politicians and then possibly heading to Rome, where he suggests he will be able to attend the inaugural mass of the new Pope Leo XIV after a front call earlier this week.

"I think this could happen on Sunday," Zelenskyy said. "If it works. We don't know what this week will bring. We don't know what will happen tomorrow."