{"id":168318,"date":"2025-10-16T23:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-latest-trump-and-putin-agree-location-to-meet-again-after-two-hour-call-as-moscow-issues-warning-sky-news\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T23:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:16:47","slug":"ukraine-war-latest-trump-and-putin-agree-location-to-meet-again-after-two-hour-call-as-moscow-issues-warning-sky-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-latest-trump-and-putin-agree-location-to-meet-again-after-two-hour-call-as-moscow-issues-warning-sky-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war latest: Trump and Putin agree location to meet again after two-hour call – as Moscow issues warning – Sky News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has had a call with Vladimir Putin – and says they have agreed to meet to try to bring an end to the war. The Kremlin, however, says Putin issued a warning ahead of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House tomorrow. Follow the latest below.
Thursday 16 October 2025 23:08, UK
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Thank you for following our coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The day has brought another momentous development, as Donald Trump announced this evening that he will meet Vladimir Putin for the first time since their Alaska get-together in August. 
This came after a two-hour phone call between the two leaders, that Trump called “very productive”.
Here is what we know about the meeting so far:<\/b>
Zelenskyy arrived in Washington earlier today for his meeting with Trump that is to take place tomorrow.
The Trump-Putin meeting could spell trouble for Ukraine’s request for Tomahawk cruise missiles. Our US correspondent David Blevins says it’s difficult to envisage the US granting the request against the backdrop of this new diplomatic gambit.
Russian representatives have once more forcefully warned the US against delivering Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine today:
Watch: ‘Game of diplomatic chess’ between Trump and Putin.<\/b>
America’s long-range Tomahawk missiles are shaping up to be a dominant issue in the run-up to the planned meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested tonight that Russia is only “rushing to resume dialogue as it hears about Tomahawks” – a reference to the impending decision from Washington whether to give Kyiv access to the long range missiles or not. 
Indeed, Russian representatives seem to be preoccupied with the matter, as they have responded forcefully to US considerations throughout the day.
Here’s a quick recap of their reactions:<\/b>
Russia’s ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin <\/b>said the missiles, which would allow Kyiv to hit targets much deeper inside Russia than it currently can, “will not change the situation on the battlefield” but Russia “will have to react very seriously to this escalation and to the involvement of the US military in launching them”;
By Ivor Bennett<\/a>, Moscow correspondent<\/b>
As ever with Vladimir Putin, timing is everything.
Initiating a phone call with Donald Trump on the eve of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House was no coincidence.
The Kremlin is acutely aware of the American president’s apparent shift in sympathy towards Ukraine, and it’s fearful that, tomorrow, it could translate into Kyiv being given permission to use US Tomahawk missiles.
This was a clear attempt to stave off the weapons – which Moscow regards as a dangerous escalation – and bring Donald Trump back around to Russia’s way of thinking.
Judging by the White House readout of the call, Vladimir Putin appears to have had some success.
Instead of threats and castigation, Trump’s rhetoric towards Russia is once again warm and fuzzy.
He described the call as “very productive”, claimed the leaders made “great progress” and crucially, we’re told there’ll be another summit.
But does that really count as progress? After the distinct lack of progress that followed Alaska, I expect Ukraine and its European allies will doubt whether Budapest will be any different.
Watch: What happened in Alaska?<\/b>
There is a chance that Trump could still give Zelenskyy what he wants in terms of firepower at their meeting on Friday, but I doubt it. If he does, Putin would be forced to respond and Budapest would be bust. 
The call, and its outcome, follows a similar pattern.
Just as Trump seems poised to throw his support behind Ukraine, and apply pressure on Russia, in a manner that’s more than merely verbal, Putin somehow manages to talk him down and buy more time, despite showing no sign of compromise or making any concrete concessions.
There was the demand back in March for a 30-day truce, which Putin countered by offering a ceasefire on strikes targeting energy infrastructure only.
In May, Trump tried again but this time with the threat of joining Europe and imposing massive sanctions. Putin’s response – direct talks with Ukraine.
And don’t forget Trump’s 50-day, then 12-day, deadline in the summer for Russia to end the war or face economic fury. That’s what triggered the Alaska summit.
This feels like history is repeating itself. 
How does Putin do it? His tactic seems to be the same each time – offer Trump something he can present as a breakthrough, and serve it with lashings of bald-faced flattery. 
In this case, he congratulated Trump on his “great accomplishment” of the Gaza ceasefire; he thanked the first lady for her intervention on Ukraine’s missing children; and he agreed to (or perhaps proposed) another face-to-face photo-op.
Watch: Melania Trump reveals work with Putin<\/b>
If Budapest happens, Trump will get what he wants – a TV moment to serve as the latest illustration of his peace-making presidency.
But perhaps the bigger prize will be Putin’s, who’ll be welcomed on to EU soil for the first time since the war began, despite Europe’s ongoing sanctions on Russia.
You can already see his smile.
Speaking at the White House right now, the US president says he will probably meet Vladimir Putin within the next two weeks.
The foreign ministers of both sides, Marco Rubio and Sergei Lavrov, would make arrangements to meet very soon beforehand, he adds.
He also says he will update Volodymyr Zelenskyy on his call with Putin in their meeting tomorrow.
“We have a problem, they don’t get along too well, those two,” Trump says, arguing that this requires separate meetings.
“This is a terrible relationship the two of them have.”
Trump admits he believed Russia’s war would be easier to deal with due to his “relationship with President Putin”.
Trump also sounds more reserved about the prospect about providing Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles.
“We need Tomahawks for the United States of America, too – we have a lot of them, but we need them,” he says.
“We can’t deplete for our country… I don’t know what we can do about that.”
Watch: Trump announces he will meet Putin “within two weeks or so”.<\/b>
Following the bombshell meeting announcement, it might be worth delving deeper into Lavrov’s lengthy interview with Russian newspaper Kommersant, which we mentioned in a post earlier today.
Lavrov notably discusses the “Alaska process” in the interview, which is 7,000 words long and typically dense, containing rambling reflections on history. 
But it is a revealing window into the thinking in Moscow ahead of the planned meeting.
Lavrov on Alaska:<\/b>
…on Trump’s approach:<\/b>
…on Tomahawk missiles:<\/b>
…on Russia’s clashes with Europe:<\/b>
Watch: Foreign Secretary announces fresh sanctions on Russian oil.<\/b>
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Washington before his meeting tomorrow with Donald Trump.
He says Ukraine is “counting on the momentum that worked in ending terror in the Middle East will help end the war with Russia”.
Speaking after Trump confirmed he would soon meet with Vladimir Putin in Budapest, Zelenskyy says the “language of strength and justice will inevitably work against Russia”.
He also suggested Russia is only “rushing to resume dialogue as it hears about Tomahawks” – a reference to the impending decision from Washington whether to give Kyiv access to the long range missiles or not.
Viktor Orban says he has spoken with Donald Trump tonight and that preparations are under way for a US-Russia summit in Budapest.
“Hungary is the island of PEACE!” the country’s pro-Putin prime minister writes on X.
By David Blevins<\/a>, US correspondent<\/b>
It feels like a game of diplomatic chess.
Just before another meeting with the Ukrainian president, Donald Trump telephoned the Russian one.
Amid speculation that the US could give Ukraine access to Tomahawk cruise missiles, something has shifted on the board.
The prospect of more military support for Ukraine may have been the catalyst for Russia’s return to the table. High-level officials from Washington and Moscow will meet next week.
Trump and Putin, who last came face-to-face in Alaska two months ago, will meet again soon in Budapest, Hungary.
Asked if the US president still believes he can get Putin and Zelenskyy together soon, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “I think he thinks it’s possible, and he would, of course, love to see that happen.”
But there’s currently no plan for the Ukrainian leader to join Trump and Putin in Hungary, and that will be a concern for Kyiv and its European allies.
How does this affect Ukraine’s Tomahawk request?<\/b>
It’s difficult to envisage the US granting Ukraine’s request for Tomahawk cruise missiles against the backdrop of these diplomatic manoeuvres.
President Trump had already done a handbrake turn, from telling Zelenksyy “you don’t have the cards” to suggesting Ukraine could win back all its land.
Now he appears to be looking in the rearview mirror, back to the Alaskan summit, where his hopes of brokering a ceasefire were dashed.
He’s now expressing hope that the end of the war in the Middle East could have a knock-on effect in Ukraine – one man on a mission to end two wars.
Vladimir Putin’s special envoy says today’s call between Donald Trump and the Russian leader was “positive and productive”.
In a post on X, Kirill Dmitriev accuses “UK and EU warmongers” of trying “very, very hard to derail peace prospects”.
“But dialogue and peace and the US-Russia cooperation will prevail,” he adds.
The Kremlin says Vladimir Putin warned Donald Trump during their phone call today that giving Ukraine Tomahawk cruise missiles would harm US-Russia ties and the peace process.
The Russian president also told Trump that Moscow’s forces currently have “full strategic initiative” along the entire front line in Ukraine, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters.
Ushakov said a planned new summit between the two presidents will be preceded by a phone call between US secretary of state Marco Rubio and Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in the coming days. 
He also said the call, which lasted just shorter than two and a half hours, took place on Russia’s initiative.
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