WASHINGTON: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets Donald Trump at the White House on Friday (Oct 17), seeking US-made Tomahawk missiles even as the US president readies for a fresh summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin.Zelenskyy will be making his third trip to Washington since Trump returned to office,

Ukraine has appealed for long-range Tomahawk missiles.

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he would meet again with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to end the war in Ukraine.

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Ukraine's President has arrived at the White House to urge President Trump to arm Ukraine with long-range weapons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Hungary’s prime minister, the Kremlin said, as officials began laying the groundwork for a possible Budapest summit meeting between Putin and US President Donald Trump.

Hungary has signalled it will not act on the International Criminal Court warrant for Vladimir Putin's arrest over alleged war crimes in Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump welcomed Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on October 17. Zelenskyy suggested swapping Ukrainian drone technology in return for its long-range Tomahawk missiles, but Trump did not make any concrete offers to provide the military aid Ukraine is seeking.

US President Donald Trump said Friday it was likely too soon to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, suggesting the war with Russia could end without them, as he met President Volodymyr Zelensky at the…

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺At a White House press conference on Friday, President Trump warned that supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine could escalate the war, noting that Vladimir Putin may be playing for time by agreeing to a new summit. Trump added he believes the Russian leader ultimately “wants to end the war.”

U.S. President Donald Trump will discuss the possible supply of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday but the surprise announcement of a new U.S.-Russian summit cast doubt over the prospect. The White House had seemed in recent days to be leaning toward granting Zelenskiy fresh support and increasingly frustrated with Putin. But Thursday, Trump's relationship with Putin seemed to have improved after a more than two-hour phone conversation about Russia's war in Ukraine. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Washington, Fraser Jackson.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets Donald Trump at the White House Friday, seeking US-made Tomahawk missiles even as the US president reaches out to Russia's Vladimir Putin for a fresh summit. Details and analysis by FRANCE 24 international affairs editor Kethevane Gorjestani.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets Donald Trump at the White House on Friday, seeking US-made Tomahawk missiles even as the US president readies for a fresh summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin. Analysis by FRANCE 24 international affairs editor Douglas Herbert.

If Putin does go to Budapest to meet Trump in the next two weeks, he would need to clear a few hurdles first.

US President Donald Trump suggested Friday it would be premature to give Ukraine Tomahawk missiles, saying as he hosted Volodymyr Zelensky that he hoped to secure peace with Russia first.

President Donald Trump is set to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks at the White House on Friday, with the U.S. leader signaling he's not ready to agree to sell Kyiv a long-range missile system that the Ukrainians say they desperately need. On Tursday, the U.S. president and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a lengthy phone call to discuss the war in Ukraine, following which Trump appeared to downplay the prospects of Ukraine getting Tomahawk missiles. Story by Monte Francis.

The US President added that he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin a day earlier and believed “great progress” was being made.

The European Commission has clarified that the European Union’s sanctions against Russia do not include an explicit travel ban for Russian President Vladimir Putin or Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. This means there are no formal legal barriers preventing either of them from entering EU territory, including for a possible meeting between Putin and US President Donald Trump in Budapest.

President Trump urges Kyiv and Moscow to end brutal war, signaling shift in stance towards Ukraine and Russia.

Peter Zalmayev, Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, calls the US decision to potentially provide Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine a welcome “escalation”, one that has clearly unsettled Vladimir Putin, even if it may not decisively alter the battlefield. While the symbolism and strategic leverage of such weapons are significant: they could enable Ukraine to carry out asymmetrical warfare, targeting Russia’s oil production and refining capacity, deepening its economic strain. All the while, Putin is biding for time and "being rewarded, unjustly" by Trump, with a meeting in a very symbolic European capital: Budapest, where, "in a cruel twist of irony", 1994 the US, UK, and Russia guaranteed Ukraine’s security in exchange for nuclear disarmament.

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he will meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Budapest after a "great" call aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. The announcement comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr…