Zelenskyy begs with Trump to visit Ukraine after deadly Russian missile attack

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded with President Donald Trump to visit his country to “understand what Putin did” after two Russian ballistic missiles tore into a city, killing 34 people and injuring 119 others Sunday.

"Please, before any kind of decisions, any kind of forms of negotiations, come to see people, civilians, warriors, hospitals, churches, children destroyed or dead,” Zelenskyy said, referring to Trump, in a CBS News interview broadcast Sunday.

He also referred to his catastrophic White House meeting with Trump and Vice President JD Vance in February that unraveled into a live-on-air clash, with Vance leading some of the strongest attacks on Zelenskyy during the extraordinary exchange.

“It seems to me that the vice president is somehow justifying Putin’s actions,” he said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I tried to explain, ‘You can’t look for something in the middle. There is an aggressor and there is a victim. The Russians are the aggressor, and we are the victim.’”

Trump previously blamed Ukraine for Russia’s invasion and said the country “should have never started it” while falsely accusing Zelenskyy of being a “dictator.”

“Russian narratives are prevailing in the U.S.,” and that led to “a shift in tone, a shift in reality,” Zelenskyy said.

On Sunday, two Russian missiles struck Sumy, a city close to the Russian border, as many residents were attending church on Palm Sunday. It was the deadliest Russian strike so far this year.