Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Putin has no intention of allowing the war in Ukraine to end. (Getty Images)
"We are not playing in the park with the Russians like two boys, two kids. Putin is not a kid. So we can't compare and we cannot say okay, let them fight for a while," Zelenskyy said, recounting the story of a Ukrainian man who lost his wife and three children to missile strikes.
"That's why we are not kids at the playground. Putin is a murderer who came to the park to kill kids," he added.
Trump gave the analogy during a state visit by German Chancellor Friederich Merz to the Oval Office last week.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a cabinet meeting via video conference at Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside of Moscow, Russia. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Ukraine and Russia have so far held two rounds of peace talks with few tangible results.
Fox News' Brie Stimson contributed to this report.
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