<p>Kyiv: US President Donald Trump indicated he would consider supplying Ukraine with more of the Patriot air-defence missiles Kyiv relies on to defend itself from mounting Russian strikes, after meeting his Ukrainian counterpart on Wednesday.</p><p>Both leaders said the 50-minute meeting on the sidelines of a NATO summit in The Hague was a positive step in a war now in its fourth year, and which Trump described as "more difficult than other wars".</p> .<p>Trump, during a press conference, said the weapons are "very hard to get" but that "we are going to see if we can make some of them available."</p><p>The US leader also left open the possibility of providing more military aid to Kyiv, which has struggled to fend off grinding Russian advances on the battlefield in recent months.</p><p>Trump had previously shown no signs of resuming the donations of weaponry to Ukraine against Russia's invasion that his predecessor Joe Biden had instituted.</p> .<p>Zelenskyy described the meeting as "long and substantive", saying it covered "all the truly important issues".</p><p>"We discussed how to achieve a ceasefire and a real peace," he wrote on X. "We spoke about how to protect our people."</p><p>Trump added that he would speak to Vladimir Putin again soon, saying the Russian president "really has to end that war".</p><p>Zelenskyy has worked to rebuild relations with Washington after a disastrous White House meeting in February with Trump, whose overtures to Russia in recent months have concerned officials in Kyiv.</p>
<p>Kyiv: US President Donald Trump indicated he would consider supplying Ukraine with more of the Patriot air-defence missiles Kyiv relies on to defend itself from mounting Russian strikes, after meeting his Ukrainian counterpart on Wednesday.</p><p>Both leaders said the 50-minute meeting on the sidelines of a NATO summit in The Hague was a positive step in a war now in its fourth year, and which Trump described as "more difficult than other wars".</p> .<p>Trump, during a press conference, said the weapons are "very hard to get" but that "we are going to see if we can make some of them available."</p><p>The US leader also left open the possibility of providing more military aid to Kyiv, which has struggled to fend off grinding Russian advances on the battlefield in recent months.</p><p>Trump had previously shown no signs of resuming the donations of weaponry to Ukraine against Russia's invasion that his predecessor Joe Biden had instituted.</p> .<p>Zelenskyy described the meeting as "long and substantive", saying it covered "all the truly important issues".</p><p>"We discussed how to achieve a ceasefire and a real peace," he wrote on X. "We spoke about how to protect our people."</p><p>Trump added that he would speak to Vladimir Putin again soon, saying the Russian president "really has to end that war".</p><p>Zelenskyy has worked to rebuild relations with Washington after a disastrous White House meeting in February with Trump, whose overtures to Russia in recent months have concerned officials in Kyiv.</p>