U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Friday (October 17, 2025) it would be premature to give Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, saying as he hosted Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he hoped to secure peace with Russia first.
“Hopefully they won’t need it. Hopefully we’ll be able to get the war over with without thinking about Tomahawks,” Mr. Trump told journalists including an AFP reporter as the two leaders met at the White House.
Mr. Trump added that he was confident of getting Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the invasion he launched in 2022, following a phone call with the Kremlin chief a day earlier.
Putin-Trump summit may happen within two weeks, but there's a lot to do first: Kremlin
The U.S. and Russian presidents agreed on Thursday to a new summit in the Hungarian capital Budapest, which would be their first since an August meeting in Alaska that failed to produce any kind of peace deal.
