Overview
- The Ukrainian president meets Trump at the White House to request U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles, with no approval announced.
- Trump tempered earlier openness by saying the United States cannot deplete its own Tomahawk reserves.
- Trump and Putin held a lengthy call and agreed to meet in Budapest within two weeks, with senior-level talks to convene next week.
- Kyiv’s delegation met Raytheon and Lockheed Martin to discuss Tomahawk capacity and potential cooperation, as allies explore funding channels such as Purl and the EU’s newly agreed Edip program.
- Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy network have intensified, and the Kremlin warns that any Tomahawk supply would be a serious escalation damaging U.S.–Russia relations.