"US President Donald Trump says he and Russia's President Vladimir Putin have agreed to meet again for talks on the war in Ukraine. Trump announced on social media on Thursday that he and Putin would meet in the Hungarian capital Budapest, after the two leaders held a lenghty and productive phone call. A date for the meeting has not been set."
"The call came a day before Trump is set to meet with President Zelenskyy in Washington, DC, where the Ukrainian leader is expected to resume his appeal to Trump to sell Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, which could allow it to strike deeper in Russian territory in the two countries' ongoing war. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he would brief Zelenskyy on the Russia talks in the Oval Office tomorrow. I believe great progress was made with today's telephone conversation, he added."
"Russian forces continued to bombard Ukraine on Thursday, firing hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles overnight that targeted infrastructure, including energy-related infrastructure. Eight Ukrainian regions experienced blackouts after the barrage, Ukraine's national energy operator, Ukrenergo, said on Thursday. DTEK, the country's largest private energy company, reported outages in the capital, Kyiv, and said it had to stop its natural gas extraction in the central Poltava region due to the strikes."
US President Donald Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to meet in Budapest after a lengthy phone call, with no date set. Trump said senior US and Russian officials would meet next week to prepare for the leaders' meeting. Trump said he would brief Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office ahead of Zelenskyy's White House visit. Zelenskyy is expected to press for Tomahawk missiles to strike deeper into Russian territory. Russian forces continued heavy attacks, launching drones and missiles that damaged energy infrastructure and caused regional blackouts.
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