Donald Trump says he will meet Vladimir Putin in Hungary for more talks on ending the war in Ukraine, following a "very productive" phone call between the pair
Trump says fresh talks will be held between "high level advisers" next week, led on the US side by Secretary of State Marco Rubio
A Kremlin aide says the talks were "substantive" and took place at Russia's request
Despite the phone call, there is no actual sign of movement on either side, writes our North America editor Sarah Smith
The conversation comes a day before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to visit Trump in Washington DC
Zelensky is likely to ask the US to send long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine to help fight Russia – Trump has previously said he is considering this
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White House: Trump, Putin call could lead to meeting in Hungary
Edited by Jake Lapham
John Sudworth
Reporting from Kyiv
There can be little doubt that the Trump Putin call – made at Russia’s behest according to the Kremlin – will not be seen as a welcome development for President Zelensky's team.
Before setting off for Washington DC, senior administration officials were speaking optimistically about President Trump beginning to see the world their way.
The failure of the Alaska summit and the intensifying bombardment of Ukraine were – they'd understood – all causing Trump to lose patience with his “good friend” Vladimir Putin.
They’d even dared to hope that Friday's meeting might be the moment when they were finally given the green light for the supply of American long-range Tomahawk missiles allowing them to take the fight deeper into Russian territory.
Now, it will seem to many here, Putin is instead being rewarded with another summit.
Never mind the Tomahawks, this looks like a long range curveball.
Some more now from President Zelensky, who has just landed in Washington.
Moscow is "rushing" to renew dialogue "just upon hearing about Tomahawks" he says in a post on his Telegram account.
Looking ahead to his meeting with Trump tomorrow, Zelensky says that he hopes that the "momentum" to curb "terror and war" – which "worked well in the Middle East" will help end the war in Ukraine.
"Putin is certainly not braver than Hamas or any other terrorist" he says, adding that "the language of strength and justice" will work against Russia too.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has just landed in Washington, ahead of his meeting with US President Trump tomorrow.
"Already in Washington" he says in a post on social media, alongside a video of him disembarking his plane.
We'll bring you some more of his comments in just a moment.
"I just got off the phone" with President Trump, says Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in a new post on X.
He says that "preparations for the USA-Russia peace summit are under way".
"Hungary is the island of PEACE!" he adds. 
Freya Scott-Turner
Live reporter
If you're just joining us, US President Donald Trump says he's planning to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hungary to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine.
It came following a 2.5 hour phone call between the pair that also canvassed trade and the supply of American weapons to Ukraine, according to the Kremlin.
There are still some unanswered questions, so here's what we do and don't know:
What we know
What we don't know
Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White House
Just a short while ago, I wrapped up a short "gaggle" with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, in which she was peppered with questions on Trump's call with Putin.
Her responses, in large part, stuck to what Trump had written on Truth Social.
There are a number of questions that remain unanswered.
First among them is the issue of the Tomahawk missiles which Trump has repeatedly teased that he may send Ukraine.
For now, the White House has so far today kept quiet about the missiles, although the Kremlin says they were discussed in the call.
We have few details of the call aside from plans for a high-level meeting between US and Russian officials, talks on potential future trade and the possibility of a meeting between the two presidents in Budapest.
When asked whether Trump believes a future meeting between Zelensky and Putin is still feasible, Leavitt said only that she believes "it is possible".
She would not, however, be drawn into questions on what conditions Trump believes would need to be in place for that to happen.
While he may post before then, we're likely to hear more from Trump at 20:00 BST (15:00 ET), when journalists are invited into the Oval Office for an unrelated event that focuses on domestic policy.
The phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin took place at Russia's request, says a key Kremlin aide.
In a broadcast on Russian state media, Yuri Ushakov says that during the phone call, Putin told Trump that supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles would harm the peace process and damage Russia-US ties.
As a reminder, Tomahawk missiles have a range of 2,500 km (1,500 miles), which would put Moscow within reach of Ukraine.
According to Ushakov, Budapest was suggested as the meeting location by Trump, and Putin immediately agreed.
He also says US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov will speak by phone initially, and the two countries will quickly prepare for a summit.
Paul Kirby
Europe digital editor
The head of Ukraine's presidential office posted a picture of his team's meeting with US officials on Thursday
The fact that Trump is now talking about a meeting of "high-level" US and Russian advisers next week is intriguing, and comes off the back of a series of meetings in Washington DC involving high-level US and Ukrainian officials in the past couple of days.
With Zelensky due back in the Oval Office tomorrow, a Ukrainian team has already been laying the groundwork, led by the head of his presidential office Andriy Yermak.
The Ukrainians know this is an important moment after three and a half years of war and Yermak spoke today of "aligning key priorities and focus areas" and hoping for "concrete decisions tomorrow".
Joining Yermak in the US are Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, national security and defence council chief Rustem Umerov, Ambassador Olga Stefanishyna and Deputy Foreign Minister Serhiy Kyslytsya.
Yesterday, they met Trump's National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, and Yermak said they talked about Trump showing "the kind of vision" for Ukraine that he had for his peace deal in the Middle East. Today they met Trump's Ukraine envoy Gen Keith Kellogg.
Sarah Smith
North America editor
In his post on social media, Donald Trump said "great progress" had been made during this call, but he didn't outline any.
There's no actual sign of any movement, but they said that high level diplomats – including Secretary of State Marco Rubio – will meet next week and work together towards the idea of a summit between Putin and Trump in Budapest sometime in the the near future.
So, it sounds as though he is much more favourable and warm towards Vladimir Putin than he was before this call started, which may not be good news for Volodymyr Zelensky when the pair meet in Washington DC tomorrow.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has shared his reaction, after Trump announced he would meet Putin in Budapest.
"The planned meeting between the American and Russian presidents is great news for the peace-loving people of the world" Orbán says in a post on X.
"We are ready!" he adds.
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White House: Trump, Putin call could lead to meeting in Hungary
We've just heard from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who says the call between Putin and Trump "lasted more than two hours".
Speaking to reporters in Washington, Leavitt echoed many of the things Trump said about the call in his Truth Social post, including that it was "good and productive" and that he feels "great progress" was made.
Discussions will continue when Zelensky visits the White House tomorrow, she says, adding that Trump "deserves great credit" for pursuing peace negotiations so soon after brokering the Gaza ceasefire.
We can bring you some more comments from Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev.
In a post on X, he says that the "UK and EU warmongers try very, very hard to derail peace prospects".
"But dialogue and peace and the US-Russia cooperation will prevail," he adds.
Russia has long sought to frame Ukraine and the West as the aggressors in the war since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.
Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev says the call between Russia's President and Donald Trump was "positive and productive".
He also says the next steps were "clear", posting on X alongside an image of Donald Trump's Truth Social post.
We can bring you some more lines now from Donald Trump's post on Truth Social.
He says "high level advisors" from both countries will meet next week, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. A location for that meeting is yet to be determined, he adds.
After that, he says, the two leaders will meet in Budapest, Hungary. He does not say when that meeting will take place.
He says he'll discuss his conversation with Putin when he meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office tomorrow.
"I believe great progress was made with today’s telephone conversation," his post concludes.
Donald Trump has just posted on Truth Social following his phone call with Vladimir Putin.
He says the call was "good and productive", adding that "high level advisors" from both countries will meet next week.
"President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this 'inglorious' War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end," he says.
We'll bring you more on this shortly.
As we wait to hear what Trump and Putin have discussed, there are reports that members of Congress are considering moving forward with a bipartisan bill on further Russia sanctions.
The top Senate Republican, John Thune, told reporters moments ago that “the time has come” for a vote on the bill which has been in the works for some time.
“I think the time’s right… we need to move,” he said.
Thune said they were working through technical issues with the bill, but were hoping to schedule a vote soon.
Senators are also reportedly working to arrange a bipartisan meeting with Zelensky when he is in Washington tomorrow.Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White House
After a relatively quiet morning here at the White House, it's suddenly buzzing with activity after Trump's post that he's on a call with Vladimir Putin.
For days now, Trump has been teasing that he may send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. These missiles have an extremely long range of approximately over 1,000 miles (1600km), which could, potentially, give Kyiv additional ability to strike deep into Russia and fundamentally alter the war.
Over the last several weeks, there's been a notable shift in tone from the White House regarding Ukraine. Trump has said he's "disappointed" in Putin, and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed that Moscow could face "costs" for continuing the war.
And at the UN General Assembly in September, Trump said that he believes that Russia is a "paper tiger" and that Ukraine could ultimately take back the territory it has so far lost – an abrupt U-turn in US policy that caught many by surprise.
We're still waiting to hear how the conversation with Putin went, and what message Trump conveyed to his Russian counterpart.
The next update is likely to come from Trump's Truth Social account again.
President Trump has long said he wants a swift end to the war in Ukraine, but his stance towards Kyiv and Moscow has shifted throughout the course of his second term in office.
Earlier this year, the US president said Ukraine would have to consider giving up some territory in order to bring about a ceasefire and eventual peace agreement – a prospect repeatedly rejected by Kyiv.
During February's disastrous Oval Office encounter between the two leaders which played out before the world's press, Trump said he believed Ukraine did not "hold the cards".
But towards the end of last month, Trump signalled that Kyiv could "win all of Ukraine back in its original form" with its "original borders from where this war started".
Volodymyr Zelensky hailed the "big shift" in Trump's position, while the Kremlin suggested a recent conversation between Zelensky and Trump was the reason for the change in tone.
Trump's attitude to Russia has also hardened in recent months as he has become impatient with Vladimir Putin's lack of cooperation in reaching a ceasefire deal with Kyiv.Paul Kirby
Europe digital editor
We don't yet know if it was Trump or Putin who initiated today's conversation, but coming on the eve of Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to the White House, it is clearly an important moment.
Moscow has sent conflicting signals in recent weeks about a talks process with the US, that began with a direct meeting in Alaska between the Russian and American leaders in early August and then appeared to fizzle out.
From Russia's perspective, Trump is the only leader in the West who's prepared to address the "root causes" of the war in Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes Western allies have since sought to "lead Donald Trump astray" by persuading the US president that Putin doesn't want peace.
But most Western observers agree it didn't take long for Putin to lose faith in the Alaska process. By early September, Putin had resorted to half-hearted offers, including "if Zelensky is ready [to meet], let him come to Moscow". A bit of a non-starter for a Ukrainian leader whose country is under full-scale invasion.
It's unlikely Putin's maximalist demands to end the war have changed, but Russia is clearly concerned that Trump is now considering handing the Ukrainians long-range Tomahawk missiles that could reach Moscow.
The long-range Tomahawk missiles would boost Ukraine's ability to strike targets deep inside Russia
We don't know exactly what Trump and Putin are discussing, but their call comes just days after officials in Moscow raised concerns about the US potentially supplying long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.
When reporters asked Trump if he would provide Kyiv with Tomahawks on Sunday, he replied: "We'll see… I may." The missiles would be "a new step of aggression" in Ukraine's war with Russia, he added.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the topic of Tomahawks was of "extreme concern" to Russia, adding that "tensions are escalating from all sides".
He said that if Tomahawks were launched at Russia, Moscow would not be able to tell whether they were carrying nuclear warheads.
"What should the Russian Federation think? Just how should Russia react?" he said.
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