WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Donald Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House Friday for their third meeting, with weapons negotiations and peace talks at the center of discussions.
Zelenskyy is seeking to secure American-made Tomahawk missiles, while Trump emphasized his goal of ending the conflict that has lasted three and a half years since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the war on Feb. 22, 2022.
“There’s a lot of blood bad blood with the two presidents, and I’m not speaking out of turn when I say it’s very, very difficult situation,” Trump said of Putin and Zelenskyy.
More than 14,000 Ukrainian civilians have died in the conflict, with some 400,000 members of Ukraine’s military killed or injured. The casualty list for Russia is more than