BERLIN — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would be willing to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin at a G20 summit in Miami, in an interview released Saturday, as efforts intensify to end the conflict.

Asked by broadcaster Deutsche Welle if he would meet Putin at the gathering in December if both leaders were invited, he responded: “Yes, of course. We have to come. We have to meet, to speak, and make decisions.

“It’s not about words. What I will tell him or what he wants to tell me, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. Matters only result. Result matters. That’s it.”

Washington has recently sought to kick-start long-stalled efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, now in its fifth year, with US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visiting Moscow and Kyiv last weekend.

Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump also discussed the war last week in what the Kremlin termed an “extremely frank” and constructive hour-long phone call.

Zelensky said in the DW interview, which took place Friday, that Witkoff and Kushner’s visit was a “good signal”, and it was important the pair had visited Kyiv as well as Moscow.

“It’s respect to our people.”