Zelensky says negotiators will press Russian side for Putin meeting

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he will continue negotiating with Russia and is waiting for a meeting with Vladimir Putin.

Zelensky has repeatedly called for a meeting with Putin. But so far, his requests have gone unanswered by the Kremlin.

Zelensky says during his nightly address to the nation that his delegation has a “clear task” to do everything to ensure a meeting between the two presidents.

Zelenskyy says talks are held daily between the two countries via video conference and defends the “hard path” of the negotiations as necessary to establish a cease-fire and more humanitarian corridors.

Those corridors have saved more than 130,000 people in six days, he says.

The humanitarian convoy to the besieged city of Mariupol was blocked Sunday by Russian forces. Zelensky says they will try again Monday.