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Talks to be held in Oval Office today after Trump said he would meet Putin in Hungary
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Vladimir Putin <\/a>has warned Donald Trump<\/a> not to give Tomahawk cruise missiles to Kyiv, hours before Volodymyr Zelensky <\/a>arrived in Washington DC<\/a> for talks with the president on Friday.
The Ukrainian president had hoped to strengthen US support for Kyiv on Friday, after Trump appeared to harden his stance on Putin in recent weeks.
But this progress appears to have been undone after a two-hour Trump-Putin phone call which the US president afterwards described as \u201cvery productive\u201d with \u201cgreat progress\u201d. Trump will now hold another in-person meeting with Putin in Budapest on an unspecified date.
The Kremlin said Putin had warned Trump that giving Kyiv Tomahawk cruise missiles – one of the most important upgrades in US support which Mr Zelensky has been seeking – would harm relations between Moscow and Kyiv.
Writing on X after landing in Washington, Mr Zelensky accused Moscow of \u201crushing to resume dialogue as soon as it hears about Tomahawks\u201d.
The US president is set begin a flurry of diplomatic activity on Friday aimed at ending Russia<\/a>\u2019s invasion. After meeting Mr Zelensky and his officials, Secretary of State Marco Rubio would meet with Russian officials next week, Trump said on Truth Social.
Donald Trump seemed receptive to the idea of giving Ukraine Tomahawk missiles earlier this week.
The missiles would bolster Kyiv\u2019s ability to strike deep into Russia.
But Vladimir Putin threw a curveball with a surprise phone call on Thursday, a day before Trump and Zelensky were due to meet in Washington.
Coming off the call, Trump revealed plans to meet with Putin in Budapest \u201cwithin two weeks or so\u201d.
He said that \u201chigh-level\u201d advisers from both sides would meet next week. The aim, Trump said, was to bring an end to the war.
Without going into much detail, Trump said: \u201cI thought it was a very good phone call. Very productive.\u201d
Trump said that the topic of Tomahawks had come up, and that he had joked to Putin: \u201cWould you mind if I gave a couple of thousands of Tomahawks to your opposition? [sic]\u201d
He said Putin \u201cdidn\u2019t like that idea\u201d. Trump suggested the US couldn\u2019t deplete its own reserves by giving them away.
German foreign minister Johann Wadephul said on Friday the planned Budapest talks between US president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin are a second attempt to get Putin to negotiate seriously, but stressed that Ukraine must be involved in any decision.
Mr Wadephul made the remarks during his visit to Ankara, where he met his Turkish counterpart.
Ukraine has not been invited to the Trump-Putin talks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to meet Trump later on Friday.
Volodymyr Zelensky will not wear a suit to the meeting, which comes eight months after he was infamously booted out of the Oval Office by the US president.
While Trump\u2019s furious rant at Zelensky dominated the headlines, the Ukrainian war leader was also criticised for his choice not to wear a suit.
“He is all dressed up today,\u201d said Trump sarcastically.
Right-wing journalist Brian Glenn said: \u201cYou\u2019re at the highest level in this country\u2019s office, and you refuse to wear a suit… A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the dignity of this office.\u201d
Zelensky retorted that he would wear a \u201ccostume\u201d – the same word for \u201csuit\u201d in Ukrainian – once the war is over.
Zelensky has donned black, grey or khaki combat gear, and sweatshirts and polos with the Ukrainian national symbol since the Russian invasion in February 2022.
Speaking to Politico, Elvira Gasanova, who designs the Damirli brand, one of Mr Zelensky\u2019s signature looks, said the clothing \u201cis a signal \u2014 \u2018Ukraine is at war and I am part of this fight’\u201d.
\u201cThe president shows that the war is still going on, that the country is still in a struggle.\u201d
\u201cManipulating dress requirements is an act of domination,\u201d Ukrainian fashion historian Zoya Zvynyatskivsk told the outlet. \u201cTrump is a political bully, who does not disdain any opportunity to humiliate his opponent, to show him and the rest his place in the hierarchy.
\u201cTo paraphrase Churchill, if our man put on a tie to avoid public humiliation, he would receive the same humiliation \u2014 but in a tie. \u2018Oh, I see you finally dressed like a man,\u2019 Trump would say.\u201d
The last time Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House in August, he was accompanied by a large group of European leaders.
It came six months after the explosive Oval Office meeting which saw the Ukrainian president booted out of the White House. It was also just days after Trump met with Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
Zelensky was greeted warmly, with Trump promising a \u201creasonable\u201d chance of ending Russia\u2019s war with a commitment to US involvement in a peacekeeping force in Ukraine as a shield against further aggression.
Trump had Putin\u2019s proposal for Ukraine to cede territory it controls, and before the August meeting, he appeared to pressure Zelensky to agree to the autocrat\u2019s demands, claiming he could end the war \u201calmost immediately, if he wants to.\u201d
Trump, at an afternoon roundtable surrounded by top European officials, said they would be discussing \u201cpossible exchanges of territory, taking into consideration the current line of contact.\u201d
But since then, negotiations towards peace fell quiet, with Trump growing increasingly dismayed with Russia\u2019s repeated attacks on Ukraine.
Here\u2019s a recap of the August meeting. <\/em><\/strong>
Volodymyr Zelensky is staying at Blair House, the president\u2019s official guest house often used by visiting foreign leaders.
There is a heavy security presence, with streets blocked off near the White House in the same way they were for Israeli prime minister Netanyahu\u2019s visit earlier in the month.
Known as The President\u2019s Guest House, Blair house is an official residence in Washington, DC, sometimes referred to as \u201cthe world\u2019s most exclusive hotel\u201d.
A Ukrainian flag is hanging from the residence to mark the Mr Zelensky\u2019s visit. Outside the house is stationed a large white tent, presumably for security purposes.
Further away from the house is a ring of large trucks and police vehicles, preventing any cars from driving through towards Blair House.
We\u2019ll be expecting to see some more movement in the area in the next few hours, when the Ukrainian president sets off for the White House to be greeted once again by Donald Trump.
He is due to arrive at 1pm local time (6pm UK time).
The European Union welcomes the proposed meeting between US president Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin if this can help bring peace in Ukraine, a spokesperson told a briefing on Friday.
Trump said Thursday he and Putin may meet within the next two weeks in Budapest, after a more than two-hour phone conversation he called productive. The Kremlin confirmed plans for the meeting, though neither side provided a date for when it would occur.
Volodymyr Zelensky wants Tomahawk missiles to smash Russia\u2019s command and control of its war in his country. Donald Trump has said he\u2019s tempted to sell them to Kyiv, which prompted the Kremlin\u2019s chief extremist and former president Dmitry Medvedev to boast \u201cthat\u2019ll end badly\u201d for all \u2013 especially the US.
Why all the fuss?
Tomahawk missiles can fly up to a thousand miles (1,600km), carry almost half a tonne of explosives, can be guided onto targets in Russia, are accurate to within a few metres, and can loiter in the skies to dive on targets of opportunity. The US has this year launched Tomahawk against the Houthis in Yemen and against Iran to devastating but not strategic effect.
Ukraine has made its own long-range missile, the Flamingo, or FP-5. It can hit a target at 1,600 miles (3,000km) and carries over a tonne of explosives.
If Zelensky persuades Trump to sell European donors Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine, it would be a huge military boost for Kyiv.
Our world affairs editor Sam Kiley writes:<\/em><\/strong>
Volodymyr Zelensky has landed for his fourth face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump, and his second in the past month.
A week ago, this would have been seen as a perfectly-timed meeting in Kyiv\u2019s attempt to push Trump to ramp up pressure on Moscow. The US president has sounded increasingly dismayed with Moscow in the months since his face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
But after a phone call between the US and Russian presidents yesterday, Zelensky comes into this meeting a little less on the offensive than he initially hoped.
Trump hailed the \u201cgreat progress\u201d made in the phone call, and said he would be meeting with Putin in Budapest. The Kremlin said Putin had warned Trump against sending Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, and the US president sounds unlikely to do so.
Zelensky will now look to convince Trump that his Russian counterpart is not serious about peace. He has already taken to X to argue that Putin is resuming dialogue only to protect Russia from Tomahawks.
\u201cPutin is certainly no braver than Hamas or any other terrorist,\u201d he said.
\u201cThe language of strength and justice will inevitably work against Russia as well. We can already see that Moscow is rushing to resume dialogue as soon as it hears about Tomahawks.\u201d
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