Ukraine's Zelenskyy asks Trump for Tomahawk missiles to pressure Putin into peace

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reportedly asked US President Donald Trump this week for Tomahawk missiles to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin into making peace, Axios reported on Friday.

The request was made during a meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, according to a Ukrainian official and another source familiar with the discussion. In a separate interview with Axios, taped Wednesday, Zelenskyy confirmed he had sought long-range weapons.

Meanwhile, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said after meeting Vladimir Putin on Friday that the Russian leader would announce a “very good proposal” for ending the war in Ukraine that he said was broadly backed by the United States.

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Lukashenko, who met Putin in Moscow for more than five hours, did not say what the proposal entailed but added that it had been outlined to U.S. President Donald Trump when he held a summit with Putin in Alaska last month.

“President Putin and I discussed it, but I won’t talk about it. The president himself will say,” said Lukashenko, a close ally of Putin.

With inputs from agencies