Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls out the US and US representatives in Riyadh for describing Russian illegal invasion of Ukraine as “a conflict,” and not “simply a war by Putin against us.”

“This softens it,” he says.

He says he had similar conversation with the previous US administration, when he “fought” against an official paper describing the war “as a conflict.”

“There was a[n attempted] shift in the policy to soften the terms to describe what Putin is doing against us, and we are standing up for Ukraine’s rights here. There’s nothing terrible, but we must recognise what’s happening,” he says.