Zelenskyy urges Trump to visit Ukraine to see who the aggressor is
Feb 24th 2026
At a Kyiv memorial on the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said only a US visit would reveal the scale of suffering and who must be pressured to end the war.
- Zelenskyy spoke near a public memorial with flags and photos of fallen soldiers marking the fourth anniversary of the invasion.
- He told US President Donald Trump that only by visiting Ukraine could he see the reality of the war and understand who the aggressor is.
- Zelenskyy described the attack as an assault by a sick state on a sovereign nation and said this is not a street fight.
- He blamed Vladimir Putin as the cause of the war and the obstacle to its end and said Russia must be pressured so there can be real peace.
- Zelenskyy rejected past Trump comments that compared Ukraine and Russia to two children fighting and called Putin a murderer.