Zelenskyy dismisses Trump's claim that Russia wants peace, says he knows Putin 'much better'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected President Donald Trump's claims that Russia is serious about pursuing peace on Sunday.

"With all due respect to President Trump, I think it's just his personal opinion," Zelenskyy said when asked about Trump's view of Putin. "Trust me, we understand the Russians much better, the mentality of the Russians, than the Americans understand the Russians. I know for sure Putin doesn't want to stop the war."

He went on to push back on Trump's analogy, likening the Russia-Ukraine war to two children fighting in a park.

"That's why we are not kids at the playground. Putin is a murderer who came to the park to kill kids," he added.

"Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy - they hate each other, and they're fighting in a park, and you try and pull them apart, they don't want to be pulled," Trump said.  "Sometimes you're better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart."

Trump said he gave that analogy to Putin in his call with him last week and said he told the Kremlin chief "maybe you're going to have to keep fighting and suffering a lot."

Ukraine and Russia have so far held two rounds of peace talks with few tangible results.

Fox News' Brie Stimson contributed to this report.