Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says negotiations with Russia are going “step by step, but they are going forward”, Times of Israel reports.

The talks are being held by video between delegations from both sides.

“Its very difficult. Sometimes it’s scandalous,” he said on Tuesday, March 22, without giving details.

Zelensky has been having a series of conversations with Western leaders in the days before the leaders of NATO countries gather in Brussels to discuss the response to the war in Ukraine.

He said he expects the Western leaders to approve more sanctions to punish Russia and more help for Ukraine.

“We will work, we will fight, as hard as we can, to the last, bravely and openly,” he said.