Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine must continue to advance, even with the ongoing airstrikes between the two warring nations, former Rep. Pete King said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“I think the fact that the president has [Vladimir Putin] at the table is important,” the New York Republican said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “I do think, though, that we should remember that Russia is the aggressor and despite what the administration says, [Ukraine] has not gotten $350 billion of aid…the Europeans have put in a lot.”

Still, King said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy must cooperate in the talks, but “that can’t be done in a way that’s going to allow Russia to keep going forward. It has to be some idea of a peacekeeping force.”

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