Trump signals he might not be ready to send Kyiv Tomahawk missiles

US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were meeting at the White House on Friday (Evan Vucci/AP)

US President Donald Trump is set to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for talks at the White House on Friday, with the US leader signalling he is not ready to agree to sell Kyiv a long-range missile system that the Ukrainians say they desperately need.

Mr Zelensky gets his one-on-one with Mr Trump a day after the US president and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a lengthy phone call to discuss the conflict.