Zelenskyy calls for more US Patriot air defences after Trump again sides with Putin

<p>Ukrainian president ready to join Putin-Trump summit and asks for additional anti-missile batteries, paid for with frozen Russian assets</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/20/trump-zelenskyy-ukraine-donbas-region-end-russia-invasion">Trump suggests carving up Ukraine’s Donbas region to end war after meeting with Zelenskyy</a></p></li></ul><p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for the delivery of an additional 25 US Patriot anti-missile batteries amid the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/17/ukrainian-defenders-struggling-to-stem-russia-air-assault">rapidly escalating air war with Russia</a>, as it became clear that Donald Trump had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/20/trump-zelenskyy-ukraine-donbas-region-end-russia-invasion">once again tacked sharply towards Moscow.</a></p><p>The Ukrainian president added that he would be ready to join Vladimir Putin and Trump at their summit in Hungary’s capital Budapest if he was invited.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/20/zelenskyy-calls-for-more-us-patriot-air-defences-after-trump-again-sides-with-putin">Continue reading...</a>