Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he would travel to Miami if his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, attended the Group of 20 (G20) leaders' summit scheduled for December. Zelenskyy replied enthusiastically when DW's correspondent Misha Komadovsky posed the question on Friday. We have to meet, to speak and make decisions," he said.
Zelenskyy added that what he was going to say to Putin mattered less than results. What I will tell him or what he wants to tell me, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. [...] Results matter.
That's it." Zelenskyy and Putin have not met in person since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of its smaller neighbor in February 2022. The Kremlin has so far declined to say whether Putin would go to Miami for the meeting. The Russian leader has not personally attended a G20 summit since 2019.
Last month, Russia's Finance Minister Anton Siluanov was however invited by the US to attend a meeting of G20 countries in North Carolina in a move that upset European officials. Zelenskyy's interview with DW comes as summer is nearly over and Ukraine is gearing up for the cold months of winter. The Ukrainian president has conceded that his country has been struggling to counter flying jet-propelled drones that Russia has been increasingly deploying.
"They [US] have political will to sell and to help, but the production is not too big. So it means that stocks is a variant," he said. "Will Americans be ready to give us (Patriots)?
We will see." Patriot missiles are powerful weapons that are currently the most effective defense against Russian ballistic missile attacks. "Russia [currently] produces 140 ballistic missiles per month. So, according to the rules of NATO, if you want to destroy 140, you need a 1-to-2 [ratio], 280 missiles," Zelenskyy told DW.
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