Ukraine war briefing: Trump urges Zelenskyy to ‘get a deal done’ with Russia
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<p>US president again suggests Zelenskyy needs to compromise; Ukraine president says US is seeking its drone expertise for the Middle East. What we know on day 1,472</p><p><strong>US president Donald Trump on Thursday </strong><strong>again urged Ukrainian </strong><strong>leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy </strong><strong>to strike a deal with Russia</strong>, claiming that Russian president Vladimir Putin was prepared to reach an agree
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Explainer Ukraine war briefing: Trump urges Zelenskyy to ‘get a deal done’ with Russia US president again suggests Zelenskyy needs to compromise; Ukraine president says US is seeking its drone expertise for the Middle East. What we know on day 1,472 US president Donald Trump on Thursday again urged Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy to strike a deal with Russia , claiming that Russian president Vladimir Putin was prepared to reach an agreement. “Zelenskyy, he has to get on the ball, and he has to get a deal done,” Trump said in an interview with Politico . Trump, returning to language he used during a tense White House meeting a year ago where he and vice-president JD Vance publicly berated Zelenskyy, suggested the Ukrainian president was in a weak position and needed to make compromises, saying “Now he’s got even less cards” and repeated his insistence that “Putin is ready to make a deal”, without providing evidence. Trump has long said that US support for Ukraine is wasteful to the US and has spoken admirably in the past about Putin, whom he invited to Alaska in August 2025 . Zelenskyy said the US and its allies in the Middle East are seeking Ukraine’s expertise in countering Iran’s Shahed drones . The Ukrainian president said various countries, including the US, have approached Ukraine for help in defending against Iranian drones. He said he had spoken in recent days to the leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait about possible cooperation. Russia has fired tens of thousands of Shaheds at Ukraine since it invaded its neighbor just over four years ago. Iran has responded with the same type of drones to joint US-Israeli strikes on Iranian targets. Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha accused Hungary early on Friday of detaining seven employees of Ukraine’s state savings bank while they were transporting cash from Austria back to Ukraine. Sybiha was writing on X after Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said Budapest would forc...
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