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During a televised briefing on Thursday with foreign journalists, including ABC News, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia is ready to negotiate.

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PHOTO: Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a damaged logistic center after shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 3, 2022.
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Lavrov said Russia would continue its military operation while the talks were ongoing, saying it cannot allow \"military infrastructure\" to remain in Ukraine as a threat to Russia.

He said any peace agreement must include a point on Ukraine’s \"demilitarization.\"

Zelenskyy on Thursday expressed no interest in demilitarizing and issued a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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PHOTO: This handout video grab taken and released by the Ukraine Presidency press service on March 3, 2022 shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivering an address in Kyiv.
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\"You will repay everything you did against Ukraine -- in full,\" Zelenskyy said in a televised news conference. \"And we will not forget those who perished -- and God won't.\"

Zelenskyy said he is ready to meet and talk directly with Putin and repeated his calls for a \"no-fly\" zone over Ukraine immediately, saying it would act as a deterrent.

In an earlier statement posted on Facebook, Zelenskyy said, \"We are a nation that broke the enemy's plans in a week\" and praised his military forces and Ukrainian civilians who have taken up arms to defend the country.

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PHOTO: An aerial view shows a residential building destroyed by shelling, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in the settlement of Borodyanka in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, March 3, 2022.
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\"I sincerely admire the heroic civilians of Konotop, Bashtanka, Energodar, Melitopol (and) other towns and villages, who do not let the invaders in by blocking the roads. People come out in front of enemy vehicles. This is extremely dangerous. But this is brave. It is also salvation,\" Zelenskyy wrote.

But when asked at Thursday's news conference by ABC News senior foreign correspondent Ian Pannell how long Ukraine can hold out against the Russian advance, Zelenskyy said, \"I don't know.\"

Putin said in a televised meeting of his National Security Council on Thursday that his \"special military operation is going strictly in accordance with the schedule, with the plan.\"

\"All objectives are being successfully attained,\" Putin said.

As he has done previously, Putin called Ukrainians and Russians \"one people\" and that his troops are fighting against \"neo-Nazis,\" a claim that has been debunked by the United States and its Western allies.

ABC News' Christine Theodorou contributed to this report.

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