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Vladimir Putin has warned Donald Trump not to give Tomahawk cruise missiles to Kyiv, hours before Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Washington DC for talks with the president on Friday.

The Ukrainian president had hoped to strengthen US support for Kyiv on Friday, after Trump appeared to harden his stance on Putin in recent weeks.

But this progress appears to have been undone after a two-hour Trump-Putin phone call which the US president afterwards described as “very productive” with “great progress”. Trump will now hold another in-person meeting with Putin in Budapest on an unspecified date.

The Kremlin said Putin had warned Trump that giving Kyiv Tomahawk cruise missiles - one of the most important upgrades in US support which Mr Zelensky has been seeking - would harm relations between Moscow and Kyiv.

Writing on X after landing in Washington, Mr Zelensky accused Moscow of “rushing to resume dialogue as soon as it hears about Tomahawks”.

The US president is set begin a flurry of diplomatic activity on Friday aimed at ending Russia’s invasion. After meeting Mr Zelensky and his officials, Secretary of State Marco Rubio would meet with Russian officials next week, Trump said on Truth Social.