Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday declined Russian President Vladimir Putin's suggestion he come to Moscow to negotiate a diplomatic settlement.

Axar.az informs, he addressed the proposal for the first time in an interview with ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz for "This Week."

"He can come to Kyiv," Zelensky said. "I can't go to Moscow when my country's under missiles, under attack, each day. I can't go to the capital of this terrorist."

Putin "understands this," he told Raddatz.

Zelensky and Raddatz toured and sat down at the site of an American-owned manufacturing plant in western Ukraine that was the recent target of a Russian missile attack.

Zelensky said repeatedly that Putin doesn't seek a meeting with him as he continues to prosecute the war in Ukraine.

The Russian president on Wednesday said "he has never been against meeting with Zelensky."

"If Zelensky is ready, then let him come to Moscow," Putin said. "This meeting will take place."

In the Friday interview with "This Week" co-anchor Raddatz, Zelensky said Putin's offer was intended to "postpone the meeting," insisting that he, Zelenskyy, was "ready for the meeting" in "any kind of format."

Putin is "playing games with the United States," Zelensky told Raddatz.

"If a person doesn't want to meet during the war, of course, he can propose something which can’t be acceptable by me or by others," Zelensky told Raddatz.