After Ukraine’s leader struck out at the White House last Friday, his European friends will try to strengthen his hand before it’s too late.

Kremlin tyrant Vladimir Putin “is in a weak position” and fearful that the US will finally send Ukraine some Tomahawk missiles that can cut deep into Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

US President Donald Trump said on October 20 that attempts to reach an agreement between Russia and Ukraine to end the war are ongoing, and warned that if an agreement is not reached the consequences will be serious.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on NBC News' "Meet the Press" that the Russian leader was similar to Hamas, but stronger.

If [Putin] wants it, he will destroy you,” Trump told the Ukrainian leader, at one point throwing his maps of the battlefield to one side, according to an official.

During his 17 October meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, US President Donald Trump reportedly pressed him to accept Russia's conditions for ending the war, warning that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin had threatened to "destroy" Ukraine if it refused.

Hungary's strongman leader Viktor Orbán calls Trump's announcement of a meeting with Putin in his country great news for "peace-loving people."

Mapped: The crucial Ukraine region Trump says should be ‘cut up’ between Zelensky and Putin - The Donetsk and Luhansk provinces in the Donbas region form the industrial heartland of Ukraine

In an often fraught encounter, Trump told Zelensky to accept Putin’s terms to end the war, according to people familiar with the meeting.