President Donald Trump will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a working lunch, three sources familiar with the planning said, amid intensifying discussions about the potential provision of long-range Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv.

The two leaders spoke on both Saturday and Sunday, and a high-ranking Ukrainian delegation, led by Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, is slated to come to Washington before the Friday meeting to lay the groundwork for the leaders' talks.

The main topics are expected to include air defence, additional US weapons for Kyiv and Russia's potential return to the negotiating table, said one of the sources who, like the others, requested anonymity as the visit has not been publicly announced.

Zelenskiy has been lobbying Washington to supply US-produced Tomaha

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