“The inaugural peace summit could become a format that would bring closer a just end to this war,” Zelensky said.
“I am grateful for all you are already doing and it is a lot. But for a fair peace, more must be done,” he said.
Zelensky dismissed there could be peace in Ukraine based on current front lines, with Russia sometimes deep inside Ukrainian territory.
“Can this war end on the lines that exist now? No. Because there are no lines for evil: not 80 years ago, not now.
“And if someone tries to draw temporary lines, it will only give a pause before a new war.”
Can this war end on the lines that exist now? No. Because there are no lines for evil: not 80 years ago, not now
Macron said he would offer to Zelensky that the pilots be trained starting this summer.
“You need normally between five-six months. So by the end of the year there will be pilots. The pilots will be trained in France,” he said.
He said Western allies would consider a request from Ukraine to send military instructors to train its forces on its soil to meet the growing challenge of building up troop numbers.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Macron’s comments indicated he was ready for France to take a “direct” role in Ukraine conflict.
Zelensky will hold a bilateral meeting with Biden in Paris from 1000 GMT before talks in the afternoon from around 1500 GMT with Macron.
Later on Friday, Biden will return to Normandy to give a speech on defending freedom and democracy at the Pointe du Hoc, a clifftop promontory where German bunkers were attacked by US troops in a daring assault during the landings.
The speech to be delivered from 1400 GMT is likely to be seen as a warning against the risk posed by his Republican rival Trump in the US election later this year.
Biden, a Democrat, will unmistakably be invoking the memory of a famous speech given by late Republican president Ronald Reagan at the Normandy clifftop in 1984 where he invoked the American “boys” of the Pointe du Hoc.
“We’re living in a time when democracy is more at risk across the world than at any point since the end of World War II,” Biden said.
“Isolationism was not the answer 80 years ago and is not the answer today,” he said.
Biden also vowed that under his leadership, the US “will not walk away” from Ukraine “because if we do, Ukraine will be subjugated and it will not end there”.