Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2023 60 Minutes Interview transcript

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will speak at the U.N. and meet President Biden this week .

U.S. officials tell CNN 's Scott Pelley that over nearly 600 days , almost half a million troops have been killed or wounded in the Ukraine - Russia war.

He tells us that his people are dying every day to prevent World War III .

Zelenskiy: "If Ukraine falls, what will happen in ten years ? Just think about it".

Zelenskyy: "Your sky is not as well protected, as you think" Zelenskiy: Putin 's mass invasion was a fiasco. He will be looking for instability in Europe and the U.S. of America . He says Putin will use the risk of using nuclear weapons to fuel that [instability] He will keep on threatening. He is waiting for the United States to become less stable. He thinks that's going to happen during the US . election. Zelenskoy: "This is our territory. You must have it all".

A week ago , I gave awards to parents of soldiers who have been killed.

"It's a difficult job. It's giving awards to people whose faces show their whole world has collapsed," she says.

"All I can give them, all I.

can give [ Russia ] is victory. And that baby will never see," she adds.