WHITE HOUSE: President Donald Trump denied Ukraine long-range cruise missiles Tomahawk, and asked both Moscow and Kyiv to stop the war immediately, during a rendezvous with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held here on Friday (17th Oct, 2025).
Taking to Truth Social Donald Trump stated: “The meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine was very interesting, and cordial, but I told him, as I likewise strongly suggested to President Putin, that it is time to stop the killing, and make a DEAL! Enough blood has been shed, with property lines being defined by War and Guts.
“They should stop where they are. Let both claim Victory, let History decide! No more shooting, no more Death, no more vast and unsustainable sums of money spent. This is a War that would have never started if I were President. Thousands of people being slauthered each and every week – NO MORE, GO HOME TO YOUR FAMILIES IN PEACE!”
On the occasion, while talking to reporters, President Trump said: “Tomahawks are a big deal. But one thing I have to say, we want Tomahawks, also. We don’t want to be giving away things that we need to protect our country. Hopefully, we’ll be able to get the war over without thinking about Tomahawks. I think we’re fairly close to that.”
It is pertinent to mention here that a day earlier (on 16th Oct) President Donald Trump talked to President Vladimir Putin via phone and announced that he and Putin would meet soon in Budapest.
It may be recalled that while rejecting the plan of foreign troops’ deployment in Ukraine under the umbrella of post-truce security guarantee, Vladimir Putin had warned on 5th Sept that foreign troops would be a legitimate target of Russian military.
“If some troops appear there, especially now during the fighting, we proceed from the premise that they will be legitimate targets,” Putin forewarned. “If decisions are reached that lead to peace, to long-term peace, then I simply do not see any sense in their presence on the territory of Ukraine.”
26 Western countries have pledged to deploy troops in Ukraine after any truce, during a rendezvous of the ‘coalition of the willing’ held in Paris on 4th September. Kremlin, while rejecting the proposal, held: “We would recognise it as a threat to ourselves – the presence of international forces, or any foreign forces, or NATO forces on Ukrainian soil, near our border.”
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