In an interview with the New York Post, the newly elected US President Donald Trump said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is "ready for peace".

"He wants a truce." We didn't discuss the details. He thinks it's time for peace, and Putin should think it's time because he's lost – when you lose 700.000 people, it's time. It will not end until there is peace," Trump said after visiting France, where he attended the opening of Notre Dame with a number of world leaders, including the Ukrainian president, and then a gala dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron.

He said he had spoken with Zelensky about how to end the bloody conflict that has been raging since 2022.

"I am formulating a concept to end this ridiculous war," he said.

Trump also revealed he had spoken to Macron about NATO, reiterating that he thinks the alliance should "pay its fair share."

"I said that NATO is good, because you know, when I joined NATO, nobody paid, and then they paid after I joined," said the president-elect. .

"He agrees with me," Trump said of Macron.

"He is a good man, he did a good job. I told him, "you have no idea what a good job you did" in that chapel. It is very difficult to do. Painstaking," concluded Trump.