President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have come away empty-handed from a White House meeting after US President Donald Trump indicated he was not ready to supply sought-after Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, the BBC reported.

Zelensky does not share Trump's apparent confidence that Russia's Putin is acting in good faith.

Following the meeting, Trump calls for Kyiv and Moscow to "stop where they are" and end the war.

The phone conversation, held while Zelensky was flying to Washington, stole a march on his big moment.

The call comes a day before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits the White House.

Volodymyr Zelensky is due to meet Donald Trump at the White House on Friday

The call with Putin came ahead of Trumps meeting on Friday at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is seeking long-range Tomahawk missiles.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday for a working lunch, three sources familiar with the planning said, amid intensifying discussions about the potential provision of long-range Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that he would meet U.S

(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that a Ukrainian counteroffensive had made gains in southern Zaporizhzhia region as well as in Donetsk region, which is the focal point of the conflict and where Kyiv has been reporting successes

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he has spoken with U.S

(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Russia deliberately waited for bad weather before staging a vast attack on Ukraine's energy system, adding the conditions reduced the efficiency of air defences by between 20% and 30%

(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces were inflicting heavy losses in a counteroffensive in eastern Donetsk region, the main theatre of the more than 3-1/2 years of war in Ukraine

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia on Tuesday of using oil tankers for intelligence gathering and sabotage operations

The Ukrainian leader says British-made microcomputers were used in weapons launched at Ukraine this weekend.

Russia says it carried out an overnight strike on Ukrainian military and infrastructure targets.

Preliminary reports indicate that train staff and passengers were at the site of the strike, he says.

Ukraine has attacked refineries deep inside Russia, with Zelensky vowing to continue the strikes

At least four people have been killed in Kyiv following a Russian aerial bombardment across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

As well as intensifying attacks against Ukraine, Russia is also accused of violating the airspace of several Nato countries.

KYIV (Reuters) -Reconnaissance drones that violated Ukraine's airspace could have flown from Hungary to check the industrial potential of western border areas, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday, prompting a mocking rebuke from Budapest

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Ukraine and Syria formally restored diplomatic relations on Wednesday as their leaders met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said

Vladimir Putin "will keep driving the war forward wider and deeper", the Ukrainian president tells the UN

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has welcomed U.S

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will seek more support from allies when he addresses the UN and meets Donald Trump this week, but behind the scenes Kyiv is quietly preparing for a new phase of the war in which it relies more on itself

President Zelensky says Moscow seeks to "intimidate civilians", while Russia reports four deaths in a Ukrainian strike.

'The enemys target was our infrastructure, residential areas and civilian enterprises,' said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

(Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomed on Friday the presentation of the European Union's 19th sanctions package on Russia, saying the measures would have a significant effect on the Russian economy

(Reuters) - Ukrainian troops pressed on with a frontline counteroffensive around two cities in the east of the country on Friday, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy saying heavy losses were being inflicted on Russian forces

(Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Ukraine would present a strategy for "guided", or managed, arms exports within the next two weeks and saw the United States, Europe and other countries as potential buyers