The US president said he will send weapons to Nato, which he said would pay and then give the weapons to Ukraine.

Flattery and pressure — coupled with President Trump’s growing dissatisfaction with President Vladimir V. Putin — have helped build momentum for new economic punishments.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will hold more meetings with U.S. officials on Thursday at a conference dedicated to Ukraine's recovery, its foreign minister said. "The main focus will be on sanctions policy and the adoption of the next package of U.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he had held a "substantive" conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump's Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, in Rome shortly after Trump pledged to send more defensive weapons to Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. President Trump's special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg in Rome on Wednesday. (AP Video by Andrea Rosa)