Russia has said it welcomes a new White House push to end its war with Ukraine, just hours after its military bombed a hospital in Kharkiv and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he aims to strengthen his country’s air defences and long-range strike forces when he meets US counterpart Donald Trump on Friday.

A Ukrainian delegation led by Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko and including Rustem Umierov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, and Andrii Yermak, Head of the President's Office,

The US has been helping Ukraine step up its long-range strikes on Russian energy targets in an attempt to weaken Vladimir Putin’s war effort and force him to negotiate.

Ukraine aims to build upon a successful meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of last week’s United Nations General Assembly.

There are few tactics from his work to end the horrors of Gaza that Trump can emulate as he seeks to curtail Russia’s near-four-year invasion.

Pressure on Hamas worked for Gaza, but ahead of President Zelensky’s visit to the White House on Friday, Trump has yet to fully ramp up pressure on Russia.