Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was due to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House on Friday to press for long-range U.S. Tomahawk missiles, even as Trump appeared to row back on the issue.
Zelensky said Moscow was "rushing" to resume negotiations after Trump suggested Monday that he was thinking of throwing the ball into Russia's court by threatening to send Ukraine the missiles unless the war was brought to a conclusion.
"We hope that the momentum of curbing terror and war, which worked in the Middle East, will help end the Russian war against Ukraine," Zelensky wrote in a post on X.
"Putin is definitely not braver than HAMAS or any other terrorist. The language of force and justice will definitely work against Russia as well. We already see that Moscow is rushing to resume dialogue, just hearing about 'Tomahawks,'" he added.
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