US President Donald Trump is speaking with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Thursday as he considers Ukraine’s push for long-range missiles.

Trump said in a social media post late on Thursday morning that he was engaged in a lengthy phone call with Putin and would give an update on what they talked about as soon as it was over.

The call comes ahead of Trump’s meeting on Friday at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian leader has been pressing Trump to sell Kyiv Tomahawk missiles, which would allow Ukrainian forces to strike deeper into Russian territory.

Zelensky has argued such strikes would help compel Putin to take Trump’s calls for direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to end the war more seriously.

With a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal holding, Trump has said he’s now turning his attention to bringing Russia’s war on Ukraine to an end and is weighing providing Kyiv long-range weaponry as he looks to prod Moscow to the negotiating table.

Ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza was central to Trump’s 2024 re-election pitch, in which he persistently pilloried president Joe Biden for his handling of the conflicts.