Overview
- High-level advisers from both sides will convene next week, with Rubio leading the U.S. team, ahead of a planned leaders’ session in Budapest.
- Trump said the Budapest meeting could occur within about two weeks and suggested Viktor Orbán as host, though timing and details remain unsettled.
- Meeting Zelensky at the White House, Trump said he believes Putin "wants to end the war" as the Ukrainian leader pressed for Tomahawk missiles and bilateral security guarantees.
- Trump told Putin he is considering supplying Tomahawks but cited U.S. stockpile needs; the Kremlin said Putin disliked the idea and warned transfers would harm peace efforts.
- Kyiv casts Tomahawks—long-range missiles capable of striking deep inside Russia—as leverage for talks, while the previous Alaska summit produced no breakthrough.