MOSCOW, November 4. /TASS/. No leader of the United States or the European Union is putting pressure on Ukraine to sit at the negotiation table with Russia, President Vladimir Zelensky assured.

"No one is putting pressure on me. That was since the beginning of the war and before the war. Now, no leader of the US or EU, nobody puts pressure on us for us sitting at the negotiation table with Russia and give something away," he said at a joint press conference with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who was in Kiev on a visit.

Zelensky said that "there is no such thing (talks - TASS) and there will be no such thing." Then he added with displeasure that the issue of Western pressure on Kiev to enter into talks was backed "even by Ukrainians."

Earlier on November 4, the NBC television channel reported citing US officials that the United States and European Union had started talking with Ukraine about possible peace talks with Russia and what Kiev might have to give away for a compromise.