Video taking off 129x its usual first day

Zelenskiy offers elections in exchange for a 60-day ceasefire

The ABC This Week excerpt on DRM News also carries his proposal for an energy truce, and has drawn far more viewers than the channel's Shorts usually do.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 475,093 views a day, 129 times a normal first day on this channel (3,690).

“Don’t Play Games With People,” Zelenskiy Responds to Trump’s Call for New Ukraine President | AC1N

Donald Trump had said it was time for Ukraine to get a new president. Volodymyr Zelenskiy's reply sets a price for that: "Tell Putin, give us two months, 60 days of total ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organize elections."

The clip is not DRM News's own interview. It is a two-and-a-half-minute excerpt from ABC's This Week, still carrying the program's "exclusive" banner and an on-screen line quoting Trump's remark. DRM News posted it on Sunday. Within 13 hours it had about 340,000 views, while a typical Short on the channel draws a few thousand over its whole first day. The channel's other Sunday uploads, on Brazil's runoff campaign, the Riyadh airport attack and Pope Leo XIV's planned surgery, were still in the low thousands.

Zelenskiy keeps his answers short and pointed. Pressuring Ukraine is the easier option, he argues, "because it's more difficult to stop Putin than to pressure others." On high fuel prices, with a caption noting diesel near record highs, he points to the conflict in the Middle East rather than to Ukraine alone.

The line that gives the clip its title comes as he moves to a second offer. "Don't play games with people," he says, before laying out an energy ceasefire in which neither side attacks the other's power infrastructure. He asks Trump to signal to Moscow to stop striking Ukraine's grid, says Ukraine would halt its own strikes on Russian refineries in return, and sums it up in three words: "It's fair deal."

He closes on Ukraine's need to defend itself, and his belief that the truth is on its side.

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