Trump hesitant about giving Tomahawks to Ukraine, saying ‘hopefully they won’t need it’ – as it happened

<p>Ukrainian president repeats call for weapons but US president insists they’re ‘not easy for us to give you’ and says ‘Putin wants to end the war’</p><p><strong>‘The key to success is in the sky’: the Ukrainian defenders struggling to stem Russia’s air assault</strong></p><p>First came the sound of drones. Then a boom that rattled windows. Shortly after that, two columns of black smoke rose over the Shebelinka gas processing plant in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. Towering flames threatened storage tanks.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/17/viktor-orban-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskyy-donald-trump-europe-latest-news-updates-russia-ukraine-war">Continue reading...</a>