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Ukrainian President Zelensky to Meet with Trump Today and Request Tomahawk Cruise Missiles

HeadlineOct 17, 2025
Image Credit: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is meeting President Trump at the White House today, where he’s expected to make his case for supplies of U.S. long-range missiles. Trump has hinted he may supply Ukraine with ground-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles. Kremlin officials have repeatedly warned against providing the weapons, which can be used to carry nuclear warheads and were banned until 2019, when Russia and the first Trump administration withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

On Thursday, Trump said after a lengthy phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin that the pair would discuss the war in Ukraine at an upcoming meeting in Budapest, Hungary. Trump described the phone call as “very productive.” Before winning the 2024 election, Trump repeatedly pledged from the campaign trail he’d end the war in Ukraine “on the first day.”

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