Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told ABC News' Martha Raddatz his country is ready for a ceasefire brokered by the United States, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of aiming for the "total defeat" of Ukraine.

Axar.az informs in the exclusive sit-down interview in Kyiv with Raddatz, co-anchor of ABC News' "This Week," Zelensky said Putin is uninterested in peace and that only "hard pressure" led by the U.S. and joined by European allies would render Putin to be "pragmatic" in his thinking.

"Then they will stop the war," Zelensky said.

"I am convinced that the president of the United States has all the powers and enough leverage to step up," Zelensky told Raddatz.

Ukraine has been invited to the upcoming NATO summit at the Hague in the Netherlands, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said this week. Trump will be in attendance for the high-stakes meeting, the White House said.

Zelensky framed his case for U.S. pressure on Russia in history, telling Raddatz that "the majority of wars were ended even at the stage when both sides, both parties, did not trust each other."

"There were intermediaries, there was a strong position of third countries … if it's not a complete capitulation [as with] Germany at the end of Second World War," he said. "The majority of wars were finished with some kinds of agreements … [with] strong third parties involved who can put pressure on the aggressor."

He described war's "long aftertaste" between its battered parties, and he appealed for "pressure" on Moscow numerous times throughout his interview with Raddatz.

"Are there enough levers and powers to stop this in the United States? Yes, I am convinced that the president of the United States has all the powers and enough leverage to step up," Zelensky said.

"He can unite around him other partners like European leaders," he concluded. "They [are] all looking at the President Trump as a leader of the free world, a free, democratic world, and they are waiting for him."

Please read the full interview here.