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Donald Trump met with two foreign leaders today: Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. Zelenskyy and Trump discussed diplomacy and the recent U.S. pledge to allow Ukraine to produce Patriot air defense systems.
- Zelenskyy will meet with senators this evening ahead of the chamber’s procedural vote on Russia sanctions. He’s hoping to persuade as many Democrats as possible to sign on to the measure despite a provision expanding Trump’s tariff authority on countries that purchase Russian energy products.
Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu — the pair’s first since the Iran war began — was closed to the press. The Israeli prime minister later called their 90-minute conversation “one of the best” they’ve had.