BBC Breakfast announces bombshell Trump update - but it's bad news for Zelensky

Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty fronted Friday's edition of BBC Breakfast where the latter delivered an update on talks between Donald Trump, Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The US President is expected to meet with Zelensky in Washington today, but according to the Ukrainian leader his hopes of receiving longrange Tomahawk missiles could be hanging in the balance as the Russian president is expected to meet with Trump in a matter of weeks.

Naga began: "President Trump said he will meet with President Putin in Hungary within two weeks for a further round of face-to-face talks on the war in Ukraine. This was after a phone call with the Russian leader.

President Zelensky said, 'Moscow was rushing to the negotiating table to stop the US from sending longrange Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.'"

During a conference on Thursday, Trump stated: "We have a problem. They don't get along too well, those two. Sometimes it's tough to have meetings. So we may do something where we are separate but equal.

"This is a terrible relationship the two of them have. It's one of those things."

President Zelensky is expected to meet with Trump in Washington today.

BBC correspondent John Sudworth addressed the upcoming meetings from Kyiv.

He explained: "I think it's safe to say Naga that the phone call and the announcement of this second summit with President Putin and President Trump has taken the Ukrainian side by surprise.

They were in the air when that phone call took place having set off from here in a mood of optimism. That the White House was shifting in their favour. President Trump was running out of patience with Vladimir Putin."

He added that it appeared Trump's mood has shifted again - and not in favour of Ukraine.

"What's important to say is that within hours of this summit, Russia was pounding this country again with another wave of missiles and drone strikes," John said. "In President Zelensky's home city."

He then read out a tweet posted by Zelensky which stated: "Russia's true readiness for peace lies not in words, as we know no shortage of those from Mr Putin, but in actually stopping the killings."

John said that Zelensky will see Trump and Putin's meeting as a "worrying sign" that the Russian leader is not being punished but rewarded.

It comes eight months after a furious row between Trump and Zelensky erupted in the White House over the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.