Trump speaks with Putin as he considers selling Ukraine long-range missiles
Global News
The call comes ahead of Trump’s meeting on Friday at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has been pressing Trump to sell Kyiv Tomahawk missiles.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he was speaking with Russia’s Vladimir Putin as he considers Ukraine’s push for long-range missiles.
“I am speaking to President Putin now,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website shortly after a White House official confirmed the call to the Associated Press and Reuters.
“The conversation is ongoing, a lengthy one, and I will report the contents, as will President Putin, at its conclusion. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
The call comes ahead of Trump’s meeting on Friday at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has been pressing Trump to sell Kyiv Tomahawk missiles that would allow Ukrainian forces to strike deeper into Russian territory. Zelenskyy has argued such strikes would help compel Putin to take Trump’s calls for direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to end the war more seriously.
Trump had told reporters traveling with him to Israel on Sunday that he had planned to discuss the Tomahawks with Putin as a way to pressure him to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. “Do they want to have Tomahawks going in that direction? I don’t think so,” Trump said on Sunday. “I think I might speak to Russia about that.”
The White House official who disclosed the Trump-Putin call was not authorized to comment on it publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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