WATCH: Zelensky Appears To Take Shot At Trump Over Russia Summit

After a seemingly amicable meeting with President Donald Trump and senior members of his cabinet last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took shots at his U.S. counterpart during an interview with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz on Sunday.

Trump and Putin met for a historic summit in Anchorage, Alaska on August 15, which was the first meeting between leaders of the two nuclear powers since the war in wider Ukraine began in 2022. The two sides discussed ways to end the conflict in what was Putin’s first trip to the United States since 2007.

An agreement has not yet been reached, though President Trump has stated that dialogue is ongoing. The Trump Administration has not ruled out additional penalties on the Kremlin in order to bring them to the table, however, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that a massive sanctions package is being prepared if needed during an appearance on “Meet The Press” Sunday.

Just hours after the meeting, Trump spoke with Zelensky for hours and immediately set up a meeting between the two sides, which was also attended by leading European allies. The meeting appeared to go over well, a massive turnaround from an earlier meeting that ended in disaster this year when Zelensky was booted from the White House for claiming U.S. security will be threatened if funding of Ukraine’s war effort does not continue.

Both leaders described the second meeting in positive terms, though Zelensky appeared to take a shot at President Trump while speaking with Raddatz on Sunday. “It’s a pity that Ukraine was not there, because I think President Trump gave Putin what he wanted,” the Ukrainian president said, accusing President Trump of giving Putin a propaganda victory.

Elsewhere in the interview, Zelensky declined Putin’s invitation for a meeting in Moscow and suggested that the Russian leader should travel to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev instead. “I always said we can’t trust Putin. He play games and he’s playing games with the United States. I think so. It’s to my mind,” Zelensky added.

“Do you think the possibility for a bilateral meeting is dead at this point?” Raddatz followed up, to which Zelensky responded by saying a meeting is still on the table. “It was a signal from the president and from President Trump. And I said, look, Mr. President, I’m ready for any kind of meeting, but not in Russia. Any kind of meeting, bilateral. trilateral, we’ll be happy if you will be, and even preconditions which we had at the very beginning of the year, that ceasefire and then meeting. Then we spoke about security guarantees and then meeting,” he said.

“By the way, I’m thankful to the United States that if in Washington, D.C., when we had meeting, the president said that America will be in security guarantees. I hope that it will be.”

Both Trump and Putin described last month’s meeting as a success despite the fact that they failed to reach an agreement.

“There were many, many points that we agreed on, most of them, I would say, a couple of big ones, that we haven’t quite gotten there, but we made some headway. So, there’s no deal until there’s a deal,” Trump said at a joint press appearance following the summit. Putin, for his part, expressed openness to Ukrainian security guarantees and called the talks “contrastive.”

“I agree with President Trump, as he has said today, that naturally, the security of Ukraine should be ensured as well. Naturally, we’re prepared to work on that,” Putin said.