Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky should have a beer with his Russian counterpart Putin and talk peace, American filmmaker David Lynch insisted in an "interview" with Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus.

The first fragment of the interview was published on the Russian video hosting website RuTube on Thursday, while the full-length version is expected to be released in the coming days.

Speaking to whom he thought was the Ukrainian leader, the Twin Peaks director insisted that the only way to end the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine was through peace. Lynch said it was his "job" to inform Zelensky about "technologies" that exist for achieving a lasting peace and that these methods were far more effective than "war and murder," referring to letters he had previously sent to the Ukrainian president.

"Now is the time for peace, and the technology to achieve true peace exists. You need to use them and form such groups of experts on a peaceful settlement in the interests of Ukraine," he noted.

Vovan and Lexus, posing as Zelensky, asked the filmmaker whether he thought there should be direct talks with Putin in the interest of reaching peace, to which Lynch emphatically replied "Yes!", stressing that there were a number of ways to do so, such as an ordinary telephone call or a virtual dinner with a couple of beers.