Overview

• Trump announced the Budapest summit plan after a roughly two‑and‑a‑half‑hour call with Putin that both sides described as very productive.
• No date has been set for the leaders’ meeting, and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán publicly welcomed hosting the talks in Budapest.
• The White House said senior adviser‑level meetings will start next week with the U.S. side initially led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
• The Kremlin warned that supplying Tomahawk long‑range missiles to Kyiv would be a new level of escalation, as Trump weighs the proposal.
• Zelensky is due at the Oval Office on Friday to press for long‑range strike capabilities and air defenses, shaping U.S. positions going into the talks.