President Donald Trump has held abstracted meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which the White House described arsenic "positive and productive".
The 2 leaders were successful Washington to be the ceremonial of Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch protagonist of Israel and advocator for US assistance to Ukraine, who died earlier this month.
Zelensky and Trump discussed Kyiv's anticipation that the US would assistance bolster its aerial defences, though nary ceremonial committedness has truthful acold been announced.
Netanyahu, for his part, arrived astatine a clip erstwhile the US-Israel ties person been frayed by diverging views connected Iran.
Ahead of the visit, Zelensky was expected to property Trump to travel done connected a committedness helium made astatine this month's Nato acme to assistance Ukraine a licence to nutrient Patriot interceptor missiles.
Ukraine has agelong sought American Patriot missiles, which Kyiv says could beryllium utilized to support Ukrainian cities from escalating Russian drone and ballistic rocket attacks crossed the country.
But the closed-door gathering ended without immoderate steadfast announcement implicit US subject assistance to Ukraine.
In a station connected X, Zelensky thanked Trump for "everything we bash unneurotic to support the lives of Ukrainians".
Zelensky added that the 2 discussed the Patriot licences and "several ideas that could help".
"We besides spoke astir diplomacy," helium wrote. "It's important that the diplomatic process beryllium reinvigorated."
In a abstracted post, Zelensky said helium besides met representatives of US defence shaper Lockheed Martin to sermon "further improvement of our cooperation".
"Ukraine has a batch to stock with those who assistance america support lives," helium added. "We spoke astir our associated capabilities related to Patriots and different systems. Our teams are already moving connected circumstantial solutions to determination to co-production arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable and summation our capabilities to support lives."
Zelensky was besides readying to conscionable a bipartisan radical of Senators who are moving guardant with authorities to authorisation buyers of Russian lipid and state to punish Moscow for the warfare successful Ukraine.
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