Overview

• The two presidents agreed in a lengthy call to hold high‑level adviser talks next week, with Marco Rubio leading the U.S. delegation and the venue still undecided.
• They plan a subsequent leaders’ meeting in Budapest to pursue an end to the war, though no date has been set.
• Trump said the call was very productive and the Kremlin’s Yury Ushakov called it extremely frank and trustful.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets Trump at the White House on Friday to discuss air defenses and long‑range strike options, including Tomahawk missiles.
• Russia has warned that supplying Tomahawks to Kyiv would represent a new stage of escalation and harm U.S.–Russia relations, a factor expected to weigh on the talks.