Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky will sit down this evening for another major White House meeting after the US President spoke with Vladimir Putin.
Mr Trump is seeking to use momentum built from the recent Israel-Hamas deal to broker peace in Ukraine, with the conflict – which he promised to solve “on day one” while campaigning – continuing to roll on without an end in sight.
The meeting between himself and the Ukrainian premier, set to take place at 1pm local time (6pm BST), will likely focus on the latter’s hopes to use US-made Tomahawk missiles in the conflict, with Mr Trump yet to confirm whether his administration will send them to the frontlines after Putin warned the weapons are a “red line” for Russia.